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  Harboring The Enemy - The Civil...

  R.C. Duffy

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  “Compelling dramatization of a Charleston woman’s secret Civil War heroics.” -Booklife (Publisher’s Weekly)"A simply fascinating read from start to finish...reads with all the emotional suspense and thrills of a novel" - Midwest Book Review 
  Charleston, 1861. Anna Itgen is a twenty-year-old German immigrant, newly married and expecting her first child, when cannon fire erupts from Fort Sumter and upends her world. Within months, her husband is killed at the Battle of Port Royal. 
  As a single mother, Anna works alongside her neighbors to survive the Union blockade, all while a Confederate prison sits within view of her window, packed with starving captives. She begins slipping bread to guards and prisoners alike. Then she hides an escaped Union officer in her cellar—and finds herself facing a traitor's noose. 
  Choosing humanity over self-preservation, Anna Itgen risked everything for a stranger who wore the wrong uniform. 
  A clean read grounded in a true story, Harboring the Enemy is for readers who like Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest and Karen Abbott's Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy.

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  How to Become Famous - Lost...

  Cass R. Sunstein

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  It's hard to imagine our world without its stars and celebrity geniuses—they become a part of our culture and history, seeming permanent and preordained. But as Cass Sunstein shows in this startling book, that is far from the case. Focusing on both famous and forgotten (or simply overlooked) artists and luminaries in music, literature, business, science, politics, and other fields, he explores why some individuals become famous and others don't and offers a new understanding of the role of greatness, luck, and contingency in the achievement of fame. 
   
   
   
  First, Sunstein examines recent research—on informational cascades, power laws, network effects, and group polarization—to probe the question of how people become famous. He explores what ends up in the history books, in the great religious texts, and in the literary canon—and how that changes radically over time. He delves into the rich and entertaining stories of a diverse cast of famous characters, from John Keats, William Blake, and Jane Austen to Bob Dylan, Ayn Rand, and Stan Lee—as well as John, Paul, George, and Ringo. 
   
   
   
  How to Become Famous takes you on a fun, captivating, and at times profound journey that will forever change your perspective on the latest celebrity's "fifteen minutes," the nature of memory, success and failure in business, and our enduring fascination with fame.

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  Surviving the Bataan Death March...

  Commanders & Campaigns

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  You wanted a true story you could follow in one voice, one man, from the first chapter to the last. Not a campaign history, not a roster of generals, but a single life you can walk beside.
  
  This is the documented story of Lester Tenney, a young tank crewman who surrendered on Bataan, walked the Death March, survived the hell ships and dug coal for Mitsui in Omuta until the war ended. Every scene is built on his own published testimony, unit records and oral-history archives, so what you hear is what he recorded. You follow him through the prison camps and the cruelty, through the quiet strategies that kept him alive, and then through the harder decades afterward as he rebuilt a life and eventually sat across the table from the country that held him.
  
  By the final chapter you understand not just how a man survives, but how he chooses to forgive. Press play and let his story carry you.

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  Learn Chinese while you sleep -...

  1000-words.com

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Learn Chinese anytime, anywhere — while you sleep 😴, drive 🚗, walk 🚶‍♂️, study 📚, or work out 💪. 
   
  1000 Words helps you learn Chinese using a calm, immersive, audio-focused method.  
  Each lesson is designed to help you expand your vocabulary, improve your pronunciation, and understand real Chinese — all stress-free, screen-free, and uninterrupted 🌿. 
   
  In this audiobook, you’ll hear 1,000 essential Chinese verbs and adjectives pronounced clearly, along with their English translations.  
  It’s ideal for beginners, travelers, and anyone who wants to learn Chinese naturally through repetition.  
   
  Listen in bed 🛏️, at the gym 🏋️, in the car 🚙, or during your daily routine — every minute helps improve your Chinese effortlessly. 
   
  🌙 Relax. Focus. Learn Chinese anywhere.  
  For more content, games 🎮, and exclusive video lessons, visit 👉 1000-words.com  
   
  Also available as an Android and iPhone app 📱.

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  Nazi Germany and World War II:...

  Charles River Editors

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  "My good friends," the mustached, bony man with thick eyebrows and large, strong teeth somewhat reminiscent of those of a horse, shouted to the crowds from the second-floor window of his house at 10 Downing Street, "this is the second time in our history, that there has come back to Downing Street from Germany peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time."  
  	The man addressing the crowd, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, had just returned from the heart of Nazi Germany following negotiations with Adolf Hitler, and the crowd gathered outside the English leader's house on September 30, 1938 greeted these ringing words with grateful cheers. The piece of paper Chamberlain flourished exultantly seemed to offer permanent amity and goodwill between democratic Britain and totalitarian Germany. In it, Britain agreed to allow Hitler's Third Reich to absorb the Sudeten regions of Czechoslovakia without interference from either England or France, and since high percentages of ethnic Germans – often more than 50% locally – inhabited these regions, Hitler's demand for this territory seemed somewhat reasonable to Chamberlain and his supporters. With Germany resurgent and rearmed after the disasters inflicted on it by the Treaty of Versailles following World War I, the pact – known as the Munich Agreement – held out hope of a quick end to German ambitions and the return of stable, normal international relations across Europe.  
  	Of course, the Munich agreement is now notorious because its promise proved barren within a very short period of time. Indeed, it effectively signed away Czechoslovakia's independence to Hitler's hungry new Third Reich, and within two years, most of the world found itself plunged into a conflict which made a charnelhouse of Europe and left somewhere between 60-80 million people dead globally. 

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  Niels Bohr: A short biography -...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and Nobel prize laureate: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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