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  From Welfare To CEO - Lessons...

  Korena Keys

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  A Working Mom's Journey Of Fighting Barriers And Embracing New Possibilities To Find SuccessKorena Keys didn’t expect to become a successful entrepreneur. But through faith, determination, and creative problem-solving she built a thriving digital media agency committed to proving women can have both a fulfilling career and family life.In From Welfare to CEO, Keys draws from her inspiring underdog personal story to encourage other women to defy societal limitations, embrace their full potential, and create the life they want on their own terms. She offers practical advice on overcoming self-doubt, finding fulfilling work, balancing responsibilities, dealing with discrimination, and becoming a true leader. Her mantra: When you look up to the opportunities around you instead of down at the obstacles in your way, anything is possible.From Welfare to CEO weaves Keys' uplifting personal narrative with actionable tips so readers can fully embrace their talents and pursue their professional dreams.

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  Winston Churchill & The Queen -...

  Oliver Williams

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  A light-hearted look at royal life during the beginning of Queen Elizabeth the Second’s reign and the final days of Churchill’s prime ministership. How did two people from two different generations come to be such good friends? 
  This readable and relatable Churchill-Queen Elizabeth II book talks to the reader instead of lecturing them. The moment you become immersed in the first pages, you are transported back to what it must have felt like for a young queen to suddenly lose her father and have the elderly Churchill step in to guide, assist, and comfort her, and also tell a great many jokes along the way! 
  There is a reason why Sir Winston Churchill consistently tops the lists of greatest human beings of all time, and every time it happens it must warm Queen Elizabeth’s heart. Despite the 52 year age gap, the monarch and possibly the best Prime Minister Britain will ever have, cemented a friendship of a lifetime as they continued to bring the United Kingdom out of its post-war slump. 
  This book is not for history buffs, although it is historically accurate; it’s a book about friendship and how these two famous people found so much about which to talk and laugh about (with the occasional disagreement thrown in for good measure). 
  The more you read about Churchill and the Queen’s many interactions through the years, the more it is easy to see why theirs was not an unlikely friendship at all. 
  With dozens of interesting facts and never-before-noticed details and observations, not only is this book hard to put down and easy to read, but it also offers the reader a tiny glimpse into royal and parliamentary life in a post-world war Britain. 
  Finally, a history book about two fascinating people for fans of friendship everywhere!

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  Cratylus - On Names and Reality...

  Plato, Tim Zengerink

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  What if words aren’t just signs—but symbols of truth? 
  Cratylus by Plato is an early and enduring exploration of language, etymology, and the connection between names and reality. This modern translation brings clarity and life to the dialogue between Socrates, Cratylus, and Hermogenes as they debate the origins and accuracy of words. Is language merely a social convention, or does it reflect the essence of things? 
  What you'll discover inside: 
  •	A Riveting Dialogue on Language and Truth – Socrates leads a spirited debate on the nature of names. 
  •	The Origins of Linguistic Philosophy – Engage with Plato’s pioneering ideas on semantics and reality. 
  •	A Modern, Accessible Translation – Readable and resonant for today’s listeners. 
  •	Philosophy That Still Speaks Today – Timeless questions about communication, meaning, and perception. 
  Cratylus challenges us to look beyond the words we use—and ask what they truly reveal.

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  The Nation Holds its Breath - My...

  George Hamilton

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  ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath … Yes, we’re there!’ 
   
   
  Written with his trademark warmth and candour, The Nation Holds Its Breath is George Hamilton’s eagerly awaited and wonderfully told journey through a rich and varied career in broadcasting. 
   
  As the undisputed voice of Irish football, George’s evocative and celebrated commentary is familiar to millions. He has captured the highs and lows of Irish sport for generations of fans, ever since he first took up the microphone in the mid-seventies, and he has been enthralling his audiences ever since. 
   
  The listener will be captivated as George takes us on an affectionate journey from the Cregagh Road in East Belfast to an emotional farewell salute from Big Jack Charlton on the hallowed Anfield turf in 1995. The destinations – Stuttgart, Genoa, New Jersey – will be familiar, the journeys in between, anything but. A must-listen memoir from one of Ireland’s truly undeniable national treasures.

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  90 Degrees to Zamboanga -...

  Rick Bibbero

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  Sometimes comedic and sometimes deadly serious; the story is told by one of its major participants. Naive college students in the late 1960s, looking for excitement and adventure, smuggle kilos of marijuana on their backs over the Mexican border and into the United States. This memoir follows their lives, the cast of characters they meet along the way, and their smuggling adventures for the next two decades as their business ventures rise and fall and their escapades circle the globe, developing into a major criminal enterprise."November 1974: we were still ten days sail from our destination in Thailand where the four of us planned to load our 41-foot sailboat with a ton of the best marijuana on the face of the planet. This would be the largest single load of Thai sticks ever brought to the U.S. to date… if we made it home to California. However, we'd just survived a category four storm that had battered us and left all of our primary navigational equipment waterlogged and useless and us lost somewhere in the Sulu Sea. I figured that we may have been blown some 200 miles off course to the south and were now in some of the most notorious pirate infested waters in the world.

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  My Nile Odyssey - A memoir

  Kamil Idris

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  Kamil Idris, a man proud of his nomad ancestry, survived child labouring in darkened factories, boyhood journeys to Cairo balanced on the top of trains, hazardous treks to Europe in his teens, capture and death threats from piratical Nile fishermen who thought he was an evil spirit or djinn, and even being stranded in the ferocious heat of the Nubian desert. In later life, he was arrested and placed under house surveillance with his immediate family, because of his views on human rights and political reform. 
  Inspired by a promise to Nelson Mandela to write his memoir, the book is a cameo of a loving family devastated by a series of tragedies, of ancient souks, camel markets, eccentric characters, philosopher kings, and his father's tales of the earliest days of Africa, Nubia and the first wanderings of mankind. As a child, Kamil was taken to Meroe to gaze at the remains of the fabulous Kingdom of Kush which boasts twice as many pyramids as Egypt. Moreover, recent excavations are lifting a veil on the rediscovery of Sudan's astonishing Black Pharaohs, who once ruled over the whole of north east Africa and beyond over two and a half thousand years ago. 
  Above all the memoir is a magnificent celebration of and a tribute to Kamil's beloved and enduring River Nile, which he sees as a metaphor for all our destinies. It is an incredible story.

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