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  Delivered Under Fire - Absalom...

  Candice Shy Hooper

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  During the Civil War his movements from battlefield to battlefield were followed in the North and in the South nearly as closely as those of generals, though he was not in the military. After the war, his swift response to Ku Klux Klan violence sparked passage of a landmark civil rights law, though he was not a politician. When he died in 1888 newspapers reported his death from coast to coast, yet he's unknown today. He was the man who delivered the most valuable ingredient in United States soldiers' fighting spirit during those terrible war years—letters between the front lines and the home front. He was Absalom Markland, special agent of the United States Post Office, and this is his first biography. 
   
   
   
  At the beginning of the Civil War, at the request of his childhood friend Ulysses S. Grant, Markland created the most efficient military mail system ever devised, and Grant gave him the honorary title of colonel. Nearly every biography of Lincoln, Sherman, and Grant includes at least one footnote about Markland, but his important, sometimes daily interaction with them during and after the war has escaped modern notice, until now. Absalom Markland is a forgotten American hero. Delivered Under Fire tells his amazing story.

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  Direct Perception is Freedom -...

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

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  ". Direct perception is freedom - 10 February 1971 
  • Can the mind living in this world ever be free, not only superficially but 
  profoundly, at the very root of its existence? 
  • ‘Freedom from’ is an abstraction, but freedom in observing ‘what is’ and going 
  beyond it is actual freedom. 
  How do I observe greed? Do I observe it as an outsider looking in or do I observe it without the observer? 
  Without the mind being free you cannot live in order. 
  Q: Three years have passed; I have no energy to be aware of my reactions. Q: Can we seek God through observation?"

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  Micah - The World English Bible...

  Various Authors

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  The Book of Micah is the sixth of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. Ostensibly, it records the sayings of Micah, whose name is Mikayahu meaning "Who is like Yahweh?", an 8th-century BCE prophet from the village of Moresheth in Judah.

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  How To Write Your Story in 30...

  Deb Graham

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  Why Write Your Own Story?It’s a scary thought--What if you die before you tell your life’s story, and your busybody sister-in-law decides to write it for you? Yes, she’s diligent, but she never really liked you, and she surely doesn’t know you as well as you know yourself. No one can tell your personal stories as clearly or as accurately as you can! Now’s the time, before it’s too late. No dry memoir here! In only thirty short minutes a day, you can begin to tell your own history, drawn from your own memories. Thousands of people have written their personal autobiography and found it compelling, even addictive. Share with your children and generations to come. How To Tell Your Story in 30 minutes or less by Deb Graham makes self-exploration easy, with dozens of questions and memory prompts, carefully designed to get you thinking, to jog memories loose in a fun and interactive way. In just a few minutes a day, you can leave a legacy that will last for generations, more important that your Last Will and Testament. It’s as easy as any essay test you’ve ever taken. Easier, because you know the subject matter intimately---it’s about YOU.

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  Kneading Journalism - Essays on...

  Tony Ganzer

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  “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required.” 
  By the time a photographer spotted these words on a shirt at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in November 2016, it had long been clear that a growing number of Americans had not-so-subtle reservations about journalists. In an age that some demonize the media as an “enemy of the people,” it’s time for a heart-to-heart about what journalism is, and what it could be. And while we break down the news business, let’s also bake some bread. 
  In Kneading Journalism, award-winning international journalist Tony Ganzer provides an insider's view of the Fourth Estate through compelling personal narratives and keen insights. Essays transport the reader from a bread riot before the French Revolution, to the inside of Germany’s public media and bread industries, to the streets of post-revolutionary Cairo, all while exploring the who, what, and why of journalism. 
  Kneading Journalism provides readers bite-sized thoughts on journalism and society, and basic bread recipes for any level of baker. 
  Before we can break bread, we need to bake bread.

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  The Ride - Paul Revere and the...

  Kostya Kennedy

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  “Audiobook narrator Johnny Heller has a brisk, ardent manner, moving through events at a spirited trot, conveying the urgency and high stakes of Revere’s mission.”—The Washington PostTimed for the 250th anniversary of one of America’s most famous founding events: Paul Revere’s legendary ride, newly told with fresh research into little-known aspects of the story Americans have heard since childhood but hardly understoodOn April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver, and anti-British political operative named Paul Revere set out on a borrowed horse to fulfill a dangerous but crucial mission: to alert American colonists of advancing British troops, which would seek to crush their nascent revolt.Revere was not the only rider that night, and indeed, he had completed at least 18 previous rides across New England and other colonies, disseminating intelligence about British movements. But this ride was like no other, and its consequences in the months and years to come—as the American Revolution morphed from isolated skirmishes to a full-fledged war—became one of our founding legends.In The Ride, Kostya Kennedy presents a dramatic new narrative of the events of April 18 and 19, 1775, informed by fresh primary and secondary source research into archives, family letters and diaries, contemporary accounts, and more. Kennedy reveals Revere’s ride to be more complex than it is usually portrayed—a loosely coordinated series of rides by numerous men, near-disaster, capture by British forces, and finally success. While Revere was central to the ride and its plotting, Kennedy reveals the other men (and, perhaps, a woman with information about the movement of British forces) who helped to set in motion the events that would lead to America’s independence.Thrillingly written in a dramatic, unstoppable narrative, The Ride retells an essential American story for a new generation of listeners.A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

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