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  Personality Type Test -...

  Susan Butcher

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  Personality types and character traits are compartmentalized.  
  Let this book open your eyes by seeing the diverse characters and traits around you. Furthermore, find more about yourself, your natural inclinations, and the way your mind thinks. Even though everybody is different, by seeing people’s resemblances, you can more easily predict their behavior and their actions. 
  You will learn more about these personality types by:Finding out how to assess personalitiesDiscovering how to interact with othersUnderstanding people’s behaviorUnderstanding more about your own motives and thinking patternsAccepting and dealing with the differences in characterAnd much more 
  This system of determining people’s personalities will help you understand more about those around you, talk to them better, handle them better, and feel better about yourself by realizing who you are. So don’t wait. Download to get started today!

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  The Wolves at the Door - The...

  Judith L. Pearson

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  This WWII espionage biography brings "one of America's greatest spies back to life" in a "story of derring-do and white knuckles suspense" (Patrick O'Donnell, author of Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs) 
  Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 with dreams of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, but her gender—and her wooden leg—kept her from pursuing politics. As Hitler advanced across Europe, she put her gift for languages to use with the British Special Operations Executive, a secret espionage organization. She was soon deployed to occupied France, where she located drop zones, helped prisoners of war flee to England, and secured safe houses for agents. 
  Soon, wanted posters appeared throughout France, offering a reward for Hall's capture. By 1942, Hall had to flee France via the only route possible: an arduous hike on foot through the frozen Pyrénées Mountains. Upon her return to England, the American espionage organization, the Office of Special Services, recruited her and sent her back to France disguised as an old peasant woman. While there, she was responsible for killing 150 German soldiers and capturing 500 others. Sabotaging communications and directing resistance activities, her brave work helped change the course of the war.

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  Pleasure of Thinking - Essays

  Wang Xiaob

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  An essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s. 
   
    
   
  Wang Xiaobo's Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and abroad, Xiaobo examines modern life with the levity missing from so much of today's politico-cultural discourse. 
   
   
    
  In "The Maverick Pig," he considers the existential differences between humans and livestock. In "Tales From Abroad: Food," he recounts the culture shock of discovering American diets while studying at Carnegie Mellon. Several pieces focus on literature, with notable essays devoted to Italo Calvino, Bertrand Russell, and Ernest Hemingway, whom Xiaobo admired greatly. Others are more personal in nature, ranging from a meditation on getting mugged, to the consideration of the question: why do I write? 
   
   
    
  Controversial, hilarious, and inimitable, Pleasure of Thinking is a delightful celebration of Wang Xiaobo's unique critical perspective.

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  SAS Rogue - The Clandestine Life...

  Major Peter Weaver, Dr. William...

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  Major Peter Weaver's military career is remarkable for its breadth, from the Royal Tank Corps, to the infantry, but also as an engineer and on colonial and special operations. Hearing accounts of the rise of Hitler, he joined the Territorials. The outbreak of war saw him rapidly promoted, volunteering for the Auxiliary Units, the secret force created in case of German invasion. His section of Dorset Regiment men set high standards in training. Considered too important for his commando, they were instead later recruited into the SAS. Paddy Mayne, SAS commander, was impressed by Weaver's leadership during a near disaster. Weaver parachuted into France on Operation Bulbasket, one of the few to escape a deadly ambush there. After specialist ski training, he fought in Germany on Operation Archway and was present for the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Following VE Day he landed in Norway, nominally disarming the German garrison, but finding time for sports, drink, and local women.Part of a little known SAS deployment in Crete, he later had spells with the Sudan Defence Force and training the Greek Army. More conventional soldiering with the Berkshire Regiment still saw him in combat in the Canal Zone. Weaver lived his life to the full, enjoying the Army, fast cars, and beautiful women. Drama followed him but he always managed to get away somehow.

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  Softsadness - How Openness Feels

  John Ferdinand

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  Since I was a boy, a feeling followed me. The first time I tried to name it I was eight. I told my mother I had felt like crying for a week. She asked why, and I gave her the truest answer I have ever given anyone: I have no idea. Nothing had happened. Nothing was missing. 
   
  For most of my life I believed that meant something was wrong with me. It took me the rest of it to understand that nothing was. The feeling is not a wound, and not a lack — it is the world arriving without the padding, the texture of being alive when nothing is covering it. It is how openness feels. And if it has ever found you — on the drive home after a good evening, in the kitchen at half past nine, in the long empty Sunday afternoon — then I wrote this for you as much as for me. 
   
  Softsadness is my name for it, and this is the book everything else I have made was walking toward — the fatherhood, the fear, the gap between what happens and what we make of it, all of it one question asked from different rooms. It comes to rest here. 
   
  I won't promise you a breakthrough. There is no reward in these pages and no arrival — only a name, one small practice, and the end of a lifelong misreading, in the company of an emperor, a kitchen monk, a friar in the dark, a mystic who would not sign his name, and the man on the cover, who asked for the night to pass, and stayed. It is quieter than the books that promise to fix you. I believe it is truer. 
   
  It is the last book I will write, and I am at peace with that. I offer it the way a friend offers — with nothing held back, and nothing asked in return. I wrote it so that you would not need me after it. 
   
  — a friend 
   
  Read by Joel Baker (singer/songwriter)

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  Author's Blueprint The:...

  Dr. Vineet Gera

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  Unlock Your Writing Potential with the Author's Blueprint: A Comprehensive Guide to Writing, Publishing, and Promoting Your Book. Are you an aspiring author looking to bring your writing dreams to life? Look no further than the Author's Blueprint, the ultimate resource for authors-in-the-making. Written by Dr. Vineet Gera, a bestselling author and renowned 'Author's Coach,' this comprehensive guide equips you with the essential knowledge and strategies to navigate the writing and publishing process with confidence. Discover how to develop compelling book ideas, structure your manuscript effectively, and unlock the secrets to successful self-publishing. With step-by-step guidance, insider tips, and proven strategies, you'll gain the tools needed to transform your writing passion into a published book. Learn how to effectively market and promote your work, reach your target audience, and maximize your book's impact. Whether you're a novice writer or have some experience under your belt, the Author's Blueprint empowers you to take control of your writing journey. Unlock your writing potential today and embark on a fulfilling and successful authorship. Get your copy of the Author's Blueprint and start writing your literary masterpiece.

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