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  Death Penalty Debate - June 11 2001

  PBS NewsHour

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  PBS NewsHour presents the various meanings of Timothy McVeigh's execution as seen by two death penalty proponents and two opponents.

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  Ask & Deliver - Discover the...

  Mary Ann O'Brien

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  As the founder and CEO of OBI Creative, a full-service marketing and branding agency and new entry to the 2023 Inc. 500 list, Mary Ann O’Brien has been dubbed “The Mother of Modern Marketing,” helping dozens of companies, from cutting-edge tech firms to venerable financial institutions, forge meaningful relationships with their customers and experience unprecedented growth. In this book, she shares the story of the development of her revolutionary O’Brien Voice of Customer (O.VoC) Study, a data collection and analysis tool that helps companies tune into their customers and discover what they really want from them. Featuring case studies of real clients representing a range of business sectors, the book shows how seeing themselves through their customers’ eyes can reveal hidden weak spots, uncover their strengths, and spur the kind of explosive growth that comes when a company is everything its customers want it to be.

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  Somebody's Daughter - A Memoir

  Ashley C Ford

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  "Ashley C. Ford brings listeners into her life in this outstanding coming-of-age story...Listeners will cheer as Ford attends college and weep as she visits her father in prison, and when he is finally released." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerThis program is read by the author, and includes a bonus conversation between the author and Clint Smith.One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he’s in prison, and she doesn’t know what he did to end up there. She doesn’t know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates. When the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley desperately searches for meaning in the chaos. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father’s incarceration . . . and Ashley’s entire world is turned upside down.Somebody’s Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor, Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books  "Ashley Ford's prose is glass—so clear, sharp and smooth that the reader sees, in vivid focus, her complicated childhood, brilliant mind, and golden heart. The gravity and urgency of Somebody’s Daughter anchored me to my chair and slowed my heartbeat—like no book has since Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Ashley Ford is a writer for the ages, and Somebody’s Daughter will be a book of the year." -- Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed and founder of Together Rising"This remarkable, heart-wrenching story of loss, hardship, and self-acceptance astounds." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review“Ford’s wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it.” -- John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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  May Cause Drowsiness and Blurred...

  Gloria Squitiro

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  #1 AMAZON BEST SELLER IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA! 
  "A bundle of ideas”—The Wall Street Journal 
  Her husband Funk calls her “A Skydiver Afraid of Heights.” Someone who figures out how to spend a cost-free summer in Europe, arranges it all, but when it’s time to leave, has an ANXIETY ATTACK walking out the door. 
  In this first volume of her humorous, sharp-witted, and brutally honest memoir, Gloria pushes past her fears, spends the summer abroad with her family (living far outside her comfort zone) before setting up a campaign office, and eventually, without any experience, helps Funk cross the finish line—only to learn that being Kansas City’s First Lady will be much more difficult than she could’ve ever imagined (but those stories are saved for later books). 
  In sharing her story of courage and becoming her New and Better Self, Gloria hopes to inspire you to also step out in confidence, to make a difference where it counts, and to stand up for others … and yourself. 
  Gloria Squitiro is still a New York Italian girl at heart, who can't—and won't—stop VOICING what most of us know but are unwilling to say. 
  In this hilarious and candid memoir, a mayor’s wife shares the adventures and lessons of her unconventional life and family—from spending a summer abroad to being banned from her husband’s office at city hall!—International Feature BookBub 
  www.gloriasquitiro.com

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  Classic Short Stories - Volume 7...

  Joseph Conrad, Kate Chopin

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  Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements.  Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page. 
   
  Within a few words of text or speech, new worlds and characters form, propelling a narrative to a conclusion with intricate ease. Finely crafted, perfectly formed these Miniature Masterpieces, at first thought, seem remarkably easy to conjure up. But ask any writer and they will tell you that distilling the essence of narrative and characters into a short story is one of the hardest acts of their literary craft.  Many attempt, but few achieve.

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  The Kaiser's Reluctant Conscript

  Dominik Richert

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  “Superb . . . a useful account of the First World War for anyone interested in the perspective of a member of Imperial Germany’s Alsatian minority.”—The Western Front Association   As a conscript from Alsace, Dominik Richert realized from the outset of the First World War that his family would be at or near the front line. While he saw no alternative to performing his duty, he was a reluctant soldier who was willing to stand up to authority and to avoid risks—in order to survive. This thoughtful memoir of the conflict gives a lively picture of major events from the rare perspective of an ordinary German soldier.   In 1914 Richert was involved in fighting on the French border and was then moved to northern France where he was in combat with Indian troops. In 1915 he was sent to the East and took part in the Battle for Mount Zwinin in the Carpathians and the subsequent invasion of the western parts of the Ukraine and of eastern Poland. In 1917 he took part in the capture of Riga before returning to the Western Front in 1918, where he saw German tanks in action at the battle of Villers-Brettoneux.   No longer believing in the war, he subsequently crossed no-man’s land and surrendered to the French, becoming a “deserteur Alsacienne.” The book ends with his return home early in 1919.   This “remarkable book . . . an absolute must-have” gives a fascinating insight into the War as experienced by the Germans, and into the development of Richert’s ambivalent attitude to it (The Great War Magazine).

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