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  How to Be Like Pat Williams -...

  John Simons

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  **To Become a Waymaker, You Must First Become a Pathfinder **Have you ever had a dream you wanted to fulfill? Or an opportunity you hoped to get? Is mentorship something you find valuable or are searching for?If you are looking for answers to those questions or practical advice for how to live a life that will be able to give back to others in a meaningful way, then some of the answers you have been looking for are here. How to Be Like Pat Williams will inspire hope and answer real questions for anyone trying to accomplish big dreams and help bring up others beside them.Orlando Magic Founder Pat Williams has lived an incredible life of 19 kids, Professional Sports Championships and 58 marathons. He has written over 100 books and even drafted Shaquille O’Neal. More than those things however, Pat has directly influenced the lives of thousands to achieve dreams, find the perfect career, read more and increase their faith in God. Pat has lived a life of profound influence using the example of the perfect waymaker, Jesus Christ.Inside this book, you will read the accounts of professional sports hall of famers, coaches, businessmen, musicians, and millionaires who have all benefitted because of their one-on-one contact with Pat Williams. You will learn how Pat went from pathfinder to waymaker as he used practical steps to lead others through areas of life he had already been through. If you are looking to carve your own path, the stories and advice in this book will help you succeed in your journey.

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  Sinkhole - The Legacy of a Suicide

  Juliet Patterson

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  A sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family. This stunning elegy that vividly enacts Emily Dickinson’s dictum to “tell it slant,” Sinkhole richly layers personal, familial, political, and environmental histories to provide not answers but essential, heartbreaking truth.In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family. Her father’s father had taken his own life; so had her mother’s. Over the weeks and months that followed, grieving and in physical pain, Patterson kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold?In three graceful movements, Patterson explores these questions. In the winter of her father’s death, she struggles to make sense of the loss—sifting through the few belongings he left behind, looking to signs and symbols for meaning. As the spring thaw comes, she and her mother depart Minnesota for her father’s burial in her parents’ hometown of Pittsburg, Kansas. A once-prosperous town of promise and of violence, against people and the land, Pittsburg is now literally undermined by abandoned claims and sinkholes. There, Patterson carefully gathers evidence and radically imagines the final days of the grandfathers—one a fiery pro-labor politician, the other a melancholy businessman—she never knew. And finally, she returns to her father: to the haunting subjects of goodbyes, of loss, and of how to break the cycle.

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  Dream Drawings - Configurations...

  N. Scott Momaday

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  “Momaday must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers.”—American Scholar 
  From Pulitzer Prize winner and revered literary master N. Scott Momaday, a beautiful and enchanting new poetry collection, at once a celebration of language, imagination, and the human spirit. 
  “Language and the imagination work hand in hand, and together they enable us to reveal us to ourselves in story. That is indeed a magical process. . . . We imagine and we dream, and we translate our dreams into language.” —from the Preface 
  A singular voice in American letters, Momaday’s love of language and storytelling are on full display in this brilliant new collection comprising one hundred sketches or “dream drawings”—furnishings of the mind—as he calls them. Influenced by his Native American heritage and its oral storytelling traditions, here are prose poems about nature, animals, warriors, and hunters, as well as meditations that explore themes of love, loss, time, and memory. Each piece, full of wisdom and wonder, showcases Momaday’s extraordinary lyrical talent, the breadth of his imagination, and the transformative power of his writing.  
  Poignant, inspired, and timeless, this is a collection that will nourish the soul.

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  Filthy! - The Rise and (Pending)...

  Vic Lagina

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  Meet Vic Lagina. Hippie. Dog lover. Bachelor. Businessman. 
  Asshole. 
  And once the busiest pornographer you never heard of. Come along for the ride as Vic takes you behind the curtain of his filthy twenty year career as a smut producer. As "Front Line Commander" for Brazzers, Vic spearheaded an operation required to blast out content for millions of jerkers worldwide.  
  That’s a lot of semen. 
  Serving corporate overlords he despises, our anti-hero feverishly clings to his soul while immersed in a world of endless drugs, sex, and daily mayhem. Relationships, family, and stability are strained to an immeasurable level as Vic's life builds to an uncertain climax. Will Vic survive the journey through the muck of a career in porn?  
  Impossible...or is it? 
  What follows is a hilariously disgusting tale of how the porn sausage is made. You may need to shower after reading. 
  Filthy!

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  My Antonia

  Willa Cather

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  Willa Cather's third novel of the "Prairie Trilogy," "My Ántonia" is the book that cemented Cather's place as a major American literary figure of the 20th century.  Soon after "My Ántonia" was published in 1918, Cather was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "One of Ours," set in World War I.  "My Ántonia" relates the story of two young arrivals in Nebraska in the 1880's: Jim Burden and Ántonia Shimerda. Jim is an orphan, traveling to Nebraska to live with his grandparents, while Ántonia is emigrating to Nebraska with her Bohemian parents and siblings. The novel follows the pair as they become fast friends and experience life (and great challenges) on the Western prairie.  Received with rapturous reviews when it first appeared in print, "My Ántonia" has gone on to become an American classic and a beloved literary treasure. It is presented here in its original, unabridged format.

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  On the Hippie Trail - Istanbul...

  Rick Steves

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  Stow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and memories of his 1978 journey on the legendary Hippie Trail. In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. A 23-year old Rick Steves made the trek, and like a travel writer in training, he documented everything along the way: jumping off a moving train, making friends in Tehran, getting lost in Lahore, getting high for the first time in Herat, battling leeches in Pokhara, and much more. The experience ignited his love of travel and forever broadened his perspective on the world.   This book contains edited selections from Rick’s journal and travel photos with a 45-years-later preface and postscript reflecting on how the journey changed his life. Stow away with Rick Steves on the adventure of a lifetime through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal.   You know Rick Steves. Now discover the adventure that made him the travel writer he is today.

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