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  Titanic - The True History of...

  Kelly Mass

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  At the time of her first journey from Southampton to N.Y. City, RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and died in the North Atlantic Ocean on April fifteenth, 1912. An overall of 2,224 guests and team were reported to have been on board when the ship sank, making it one of the absolute worst single ship catastrophes and the absolute worst peacetime superliner or cruise liner sinking to date. As a result of the general public's interest in the after-effects, the mishap has acted as a structure for the category of catastrophe movies. 
  The RMS Titanic was the second of 3 Olympic-class ocean liners run by the White Star Line when she began service in the year 1912. Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast produced her. That mishap said the life of the shipyard's Chief Naval Designer, Thomas Andrews. 
  In this book, you will get all the facts straight. Despite of Hollywood representations and conspiracy theories, you deserve to know the truth about the incident.

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  Midnight Cry - A Shooting on...

  Lesa Carnes Shaul

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  Close to midnight on May 17, 1951, four north Alabama lawmen drove to a bootlegger's home to serve an arrest warrant. Before the clock struck twelve, the bootlegger lay dead in front of the house he shared with his wife and eight children, and three of the four officers were also dead. Afterward, a sixteen-year-old boy would face a series of trials that would divide a county and thrust the state of Alabama into the national spotlight. 
   
   
   
  Lesa Carnes Shaul draws on court documents, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, and personal interviews to weave together a rollicking and illuminating tale of murder and revenge. The narrative explores the cultural shifts that occurred after World War II in the United States, the Deep South, and the state of Alabama in particular. 
   
   
   
  Immediately after the war, many southern states stood poised to advance toward a progressive New South yet struggled with the legacy of race and class inequities, retrograde government policies, and a stubborn resistance to change. Sand Mountain represented a kind of "land that time forgot," even as nearby cities like Huntsville and Birmingham sought to claim a place on the national stage in technology, industry, business, and medicine. Through her investigation of this murder trial, Shaul reveals the backwoods justice at play in this isolated area of the American South.

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  Hope for Ukraine - Stories of...

  Kyle Duncan, Esther Fedorkevich,...

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  A Harrowing, Intimate Look into the Most Devastating War in Eight Decades 
   
   
   
  Part narrative, part wartime dispatch, Hope for Ukraine transports you into the gritty reality of war-torn Ukraine—and the front lines of faith, survival, and miraculous intervention. From scrambling to escape the bombs leveling their neighborhoods to fleeing sex traffickers in the chaos of border crossings to rescuing orphans trapped by Russian tanks, these stunning firsthand accounts tell the stories of real Ukrainians enduring terrible hardships with grit and grace. 
   
   
   
  Join bestselling writer Kyle Duncan and his coauthor Esther Fedorkevich—both with deep family ties to Ukraine—as they take you inside the conflict with dramatic boots-on-the-ground stories and eyewitness accounts of Ukrainian refugees, aid workers, soldiers, and families affected by the conflict. 
   
   
   
  As the world holds its collective breath, these stories reveal the unbreakable spirit of a nation under siege. Even amid the chaos and tragedy of Europe's largest war since World War II, God is indeed at work in redemptive ways.

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  Extracts from 'The New and...

  William Jackson

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  Volume One of the New and Complete Newgate Calendar, covering the years 1700 through 1723, relates stories of British trials, the persons accused and the crimes committed. It is primarily based upon contemporary newspaper and pamphlet accounts of these trials. Where the criminal is particularly well known, such as the highwayman, burglar and escape artist Jack Sheppard, other sources were used as well. The readings used here are selected to illustrate different aspects of the eighteenth century criminal world and the British legal system.(Summary by Roy Shreiber)

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  A Dirty Year - Sex Suffrage and...

  Bill Greer

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  As 1872 opened, the New York Times headlined four stories that symptomized the decay in public morals that the editors so frequently decried: financier Jim Fisk was gunned down in a love triangle; suffragist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull was running for president; antivice activist Anthony Comstock battled smut dealers poisoning children’s minds; and abortionists were thriving. Throughout the year these stories intertwined in unimaginable ways, pulling in others, both famous and infamous—suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Brooklyn’s beloved preacher Henry Ward Beecher; the nation’s richest tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt; and William Howe, preeminent counsel to the criminal element. 
  From rigged elections, everyday shootings, and attacks on the press to sexual impropriety, reproductive rights, and the chasm between rich and poor, the issues of the day still resonate. Political parties split over a bitterly contested election; suffragist battled suffragist over bettering women’s place in society; and pious saints fought soulless sinners, until at year end this jumble of conflicts exploded in the greatest sensation of the nineteenth century.

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  1% Daily - Choosing Freedom

  Tomer Rozenberg

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  What if you're already enough? 
  In a world obsessed with morning routines, habit tracking, and constant self-improvement, Tomer Rozenberg offers a radical alternative. 
  "1% Daily" isn't about optimizing your life, it's about occasionally remembering you're living it. 
  Through gentle observations and practical wisdom, Rozenberg demonstrates how even the smallest moments can shift how an entire day feels. 
  This isn't another system to master or habit to track. It's permission to be human in a world of self-optimization. An invitation to notice the small choices you're already making and sometimes, just sometimes, make them consciously. 
  "We've become a culture obsessed with metrics. Everything must be tracked, quantified, and optimized. We don't just go for walks anymore; we count steps. We don't just eat; we track macros." 
  Tomer Rozenberg is Head of Innovation for a government ministry and holds degrees in political science, economics, and diplomacy. His background in institutional systems and insight into human behavior inform the way he approaches life’s everyday moments. In 1% Daily, he shares the philosophy behind his work: life’s meaning emerges not from optimization, but from occasionally remembering that we’re already living it.

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