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  Learning from Albi

  Lois Sinclair

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  Scruffy,  deaf, and homeless, life on the streets is tough for young Albi. What could the future possibly hold for an abandoned Spanish Podenco puppy that has been hit by a car and can’t hear? Yet despite a traumatic start, Albi’s life changes when he is rescued, brought to the UK, and fostered by Lois Sinclair, founder of the rescue charity, Gracehounds, and a passionate dog lover who has shared her life and home with numerous canine companions. Before long, Lois and Albi’s lives become interwoven.
   
  With  Lois’s nursing background and Albi’s intuitive nature, the pair soon find themselves volunteering in the animal healthcare sector. Albi also develops a reputation as a transition dog, offering support to other dogs and their owners during times of loss.
   
  But  Albi is a free spirit. He also has health issues. And while his sensitive nature earns him many friends and admirers, there will be challenges ahead, including surgery. As Albi continues to enrich Lois’s life, questions remain. Albi may have found a forever home but can the love and hope which bind him and Lois sustain him? And does this unique animal have the strength to live the life that every dog deserves?

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  Golda Meir - 'Excellent' Mail on...

  Elinor Burkett

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  Golda Meir unexpectedly became Israel's Prime Minister—and the Western world's first female head of government—at the age of seventy. This gripping and authoritative biography of her extraordinary life draws on exclusive access to official papers, personal letters, and interviews with contemporaries to reveal Meir's magnetic personality, her defining role in the founding of Israel in 1948, and pivotal leadership during crises such as the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Drawing an often intimate portrait, Burkett traces Meir's personal life from birth in Ukraine to her formative years in the U.S, as well as the steep price she paid for her unwavering conviction amid Israel's turbulent struggles. Discover the legacy that shaped a nation and Middle Eastern politics."Burkett's meticulous research and vivid prose bring Meir's ironclad resolve to life."—The New York Times"Unflinching in its examination of Meir's triumphs and blind spots."—The Guardian"Definitive yet deeply humanizing."—The Times Literary Supplement"Riveting."—History Today"A masterful blend of political history and psychological insight."—The Washington Post"Grandmother of all battles… It was Golda who pulled victory from the jaws of defeat."—Sunday Times"Her engaging portrait of Meir shows history with a female, though not traditionally feminine, face." —Baltimore Sun"A solidly researched, highly readable portrait of a mesmerizing but, according to Burkett, ultimately lonely woman." —Publishers Weekly"Leavens the heavy-duty politics with intimate portraits of her personality . . . a welcome arrival to the history shelf." —Booklist"If anybody has written a better-researched, better-written biography [of Meir], I am unaware of it." —St. Petersburg Times

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  Data ScientistBallerinaRome - A...

  Irakli Rekhviashvili

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  "A data scientist and a ballerina meet in an ice cream queue in Rome, fall in love, date long distance and the rest is history... No, this is not the premise of a new rom-com but the start of Vitality Travel's first love story." - Vitality News 
  It sounds like a scene from a movie 
  A man meets a woman in Rome, introduced by a mutual friend. They chat while they order gelato and accidentally choose the same flavour. They laugh about it and spend the rest of the week getting to know each other. They fall hopelessly in love and a year later, they're getting married. 
  Love at first curtsy... 
  It isn't a movie, but the true story of Irakli, a South African Data Scientist, and Tamar, a Professional Ballerina.  
  Both are 29 years old and were born in Georgia in Eastern Europe. Irakli's family immigrated to South Africa in 1994 while Tamar had spent her professional career travelling around the world, performing across major stages in Italy, France, Germany, and the United States. 
  Irakli says it was a last-minute trip to visit a childhood friend. But little did he know who else he would bump into.  
  He met Tamar in a gelateria and after a ballerina curtsy, it was love at first sight.

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  Survival Food - North Woods...

  Thomas Pecore Weso

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  In these coming-of-age tales set on the Menominee Indian Reservation of the 1980s and 1990s, Thomas Pecore Weso explores the interrelated nature of meals and memories. As he puts it, “I cannot separate foods from the moments in my life when I first tasted them.” Weso’s stories recall the foods that influenced his youth in northern Wisconsin: subsistence meals from hunted, fished, and gathered sources; the culinary traditions of the German, Polish, and Swedish settler descendants in the area; and the commodity foods distributed by the government—like canned pork, dried beans, and powdered eggs—that made up the bulk of his family’s pantry. His mom called this “survival food.” These stories from the author’s teen and tween years—some serious, some laugh-out-loud funny—will take readers from Catholic schoolyards to Native foot trails to North Woods bowling alleys, while providing Weso’s perspective on the political currents of the era. The book also contains dozens of recipes, from turtle soup and gray squirrel stew to twice-baked cheesy potatoes. This follow-up to Weso’s Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir is a hybrid of modern foodways, Indigenous history, and creative nonfiction from a singular storyteller. “This book is not only about survival food, but about the singular beauty, creativity, and fortitude that comes out of that survival.” —Chef Sean Sherman, author, The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen “Survival Food is interesting because it’s one part cookbook, three parts memoir, one part history, and one part multidisciplinary exploration of its setting, northern Wisconsin." —James Norton, The Cookbook Test

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  Better Dirty Than Done - An...

  Rick Czaplewski

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  Inspiring. Emotional. Profound.A Cancer Diagnosis and a Relapse …Grim Medical Results …The Expiring Clock …The Unquenchable Thirst to Live and Thrive …Already facing a wretched cancer diagnosis, a young man’s prospects for survival dim as helearns his treatments have not worked. Writing against the clock, he feverishly authors a story of profound joy and sadness exploring the life he could have lived. Desperately told, his story takes you through poignant memories, intimate relationships, and fantastical triumphs in a quest to make sense of it all and leave a legacy behind.An addictive, inspiring memoir, Better Dirty Than Done will have you turning pages andquestioning the value of your own time. What would you do if your life suddenly had animminent expiration date? Grab a box of tissues and reflect on both the fragility of life and its limitless potential for joy.Beautifully told through an authentic, intimate voice Better Dirty Than Done will inspire anyone seeking to make sense of life. It fits perfectly with the missions of hospitals and cancer organizations and on resource lists of inspirational reads for cancer patients and survivors. This is the perfect book for college students or university “book talk” events.

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  The Rise of The Nazi Party - How...

  Davis Truman

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  The Nazi party's rise to power in Germany during the 1930s is widely attributed to its leaders' strategic use of propaganda, most notably Adolf Hitler. Propaganda played a significant role in shaping public opinion and manipulating the masses to support the Nazi party's extremist ideologies, ultimately leading to one of the most catastrophic events in human history - World War II. This rise to power was not a sudden occurrence but a gradual process involving an extensive and sophisticated propaganda campaign targeting various aspects of German society. In this book, we will explore how propaganda was used to fuel the Nazi party's rise and examine how it gained support from the German people, including through symbols, slogans, and persuasive rhetoric. The consequences of this propaganda-driven rise to power continue to profoundly impact modern-day politics and how we perceive the power of propaganda in shaping public opinion.

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