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  Nine Lives

  Kent Zimmerman

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 9 LIVES is an early "identity" poem, composed and described as an archetypal need to relate human experience of the natural world in a poem song or play and lyrically indexed as: 
   
  A MEMORY 
   
  OF CATCHES 
   
  IN WORD WORLD III 
   
  A BALLET 
   
  FOR LETTING GO 
   
  OF O 
   
  O RHY THM 
   
  OF WOODWINDS 
   
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  Isaac Murphy - The Rise and Fall...

  Katherine C. Mooney

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  The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities 
   
   
    
  Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. They were internationally famous, the first African American superstar athletes—and with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all. 
   
   
    
  At the same time, he lived through the seismic events of Emancipation and Reconstruction and formative conflicts over freedom and equality in the United States. And inevitably he was drawn into those conflicts, with devastating consequences. 
   
   
    
  Katherine C. Mooney uncovers the history of Murphy's troubled life, his death in 1896 at age thirty-five, and his afterlife. In recounting Murphy's personal story, she also tells two of the great stories of change in nineteenth-century America: the debates over what a multiracial democracy might look like and the battles over who was to hold power in an economy that increasingly resembled the corporate, wealth-polarized world we know today.

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  Who Cares Who Wins

  Michael McLenaghan

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  Adventures start at some point! The author was born just after the end of World War Two. He used to leave home at 4am at eight years of age on the horse and carts and in the evenings would go chimney sweeping. When he was older he spent a few years in the military. Multiple migrations, including the 'Ten Pound Poms' program then followed. After this came over 30 years of global 'itchy foot syndrome' full of exciting ever-changing lifestyles ranging from: rich, skint, happy, and sad. In the following 30 years, there came numerous diagnoses: anxiety, depression, Parkinson's, mental health issues, strokes, various dementia and divorce. Then along came Mike's saviours: grandchildren, hiding and losing his disabilities within their love and warm hugs. Every day's an adventure.

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  Finding a Way - Taking the...

  Siri Lindley, Tony Robbins

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  Siri Lindley wanted to be a world champion triathlete . . . even though she didn't know how to swim. She wanted to love and be loved . . . even though her father shunned her because she was gay. She wanted to savor every day and enjoy the life she'd made with her wife, her career, and her passion for horses . . . even though in November 2019 she was diagnosed with a rare—and usually fatal—form of acute myeloid leukemia. 
   
   
   
  Every time Siri has faced what seemed impossible, she found a way to not only survive the situation, but to thrive within it. Today, she's cancer free, a triathlon world champion, happily married, and one of the most popular coaches and motivational speakers in the world. Finding a Way is her life-giving guide for listeners who are feeling stuck between the life they want to live and the life that they're living now. 
   
   
   
  This book gives you the tools and strategies you need to find a way through your struggles and on to triumph. You have everything you need inside of you to do this. You get to go first in deciding what story you want to live in any moment. You get to go first in deciding what is possible for you, what you are capable of, and what life's challenges will mean for you.

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  Life Blood - Stories of...

  David Mark

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  Life Blood, written by a renowned leukaemia physician, tells unforgettable stories of his leukaemia patients’ battles to be cured but also uniquely describes the stresses that doctors face when looking after extremely ill young people during an extraordinary time in their lives.
   
  In reflecting on his long and illustrious career, Professor Marks’ memoir offers frank descriptions of his own medical family, some personal experiences of ill-health and his relationships with colleagues and patients in the NHS. Partly written during the Covid pandemic and as he 
  approached retirement, Life Blood offers highly informed and compassionate views on modern medicine, from a pivotal point in both the author’s own professional life and the history of healthcare.
   
  Uniquely, through these real-life stories, we enter the world of the leukaemia patient, to understand what it is like to be diagnosed and treated for a life-threatening yet frequently curable cancer. Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia or ALL was the first cancer to be consistently cured in children and is a model for much of modern cancer therapy given that more than half of us will develop cancer in our lifetime. Looking to the future we read of Nitya, whose treatment-refractory leukaemia was cured by CAR T cells, a modern immunotherapy using genetically modified white blood cells, which is now being adapted to treat breast, lung and colon cancer.

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  Frying Pork Chops Naked -...

  Eric Litsky

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  Eric Litsky brings us on a funny, rollicking, heartfelt trip down memory lane, from coming of age adventures, to growing up and still being the free-spirited and roguish adult that keeps the neighborhood on its toes. 
  By all counts, you could say Eric Litsky had a pretty standard freewheeling childhood. Growing up in the 1950’s and 60’s, there was little supervision and a whole lot of mischief. 
  What makes Litsky’s reminiscing unique is the view he brings to the stories as he takes the reader along for the trip down memory lane, all while integrating poignant little insights into lessons that are so uniquely human. 
  A delightful read for book lovers of all walks of life, you’ll laugh out loud, shake your head, and maybe reach for a tissue once or twice. Get ready for a very fun ride. 
  Frying Pork Chops Naked is the follow-up to Eric Litsky’s first book, Harry Would be So Proud.

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