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  History of Denmark - A...

  Captivating History

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  For centuries, Denmark "punched above its weight" and was a major player on the European stage. Many know about the Danish Vikings and their voyages of conquest and discovery, but Denmark is more than just those medieval raiders and traders, even though interest in their adventures is at an all-time high today.
  Denmark became the first Scandinavian country to convert to Christianity, though this was likely as much to protect themselves from Christian kingdoms to the south and to increase their trade with Christian nations than any love for Christian beliefs.
  Denmark has been at peace since WWII, but its position between the North and Baltic Seas makes it an important part of NATO, allowing it to once more "punch above its weight." But despite its location, Denmark has managed to not only remain at peace but is today ranked as one of the happiest nations on Earth.
  You will discover many astounding facts about Denmark's history in this book. Discover the answer to fascinating questions like the following:
  
  - Does Denmark really appear in the top three of the world's "happiest" countries?
  - Were the Danish Vikings only interested in conquest? And what were their relations like with Europe before the Viking Age?
  - Who was Cnut the Great, and why was he so important in the history of countries like England, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden?
  - Who the current Danish royal family is descended from? (Hint: it is not a Dane!)
  - How and when did Denmark establish the wide-ranging social safety net it is so well-known for today?
  - What role did Germany play in Denmark losing its status as an offensive military power? What was life like for Danish Jews during WWII?  
  You'll find these answers and many more in Captivating History's History of Denmark! 

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  Sex Object - A Memoir

  Jessica Valenti

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  NPR Great Read of 2016 
  Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential.  
  Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence and young adulthood in New York City, revealing a much shakier inner life than the confident persona she has cultivated as one of the most recognizable feminists of her generation.  
  In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, this literary memoir is sure to shock those already familiar with Valenti’s work and enthrall those who are just finding it. 
  “Jessica Valenti is a breath of fresh air. She offers the kind of raw honesty that can feel like a punch in the gut, but leaves you with the warmth of a deep embrace.” — Ms. Magazine 
  “One of the most visible and successful feminists of her generation.”  — Washington Post 
  “A gutsy young third wave feminist.” — The New York Times

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  Your Brain's Not Broken Workbook...

  Tamara Rosier

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  Lose the shame, love your brain, and live better with ADHD 
   
  In her popular book Your Brain's Not Broken, Dr. Tamara Rosier applied her years of coaching others to explain how ADHD affects every aspect of your life so that you could understand why you think, feel, and act the way you do. The result? A book chock-full of practical tools with the power to dramatically improve your life. 
   
  Now this interactive companion workbook helps you personalize all those tools to fit your particular challenges. Designed specifically to work with the way your amazing brain is wired, the workbook includes  
   
  ● guided reflections of each chapter's content 
  ● space to write out your ADHD story 
  ● questions and exercises to apply the information from the book 
  ● prompts to help you work through problems 
  ● visual summaries of key concepts, including the Solve-It Grid 
   
  The minute you start using this practical workbook, you are one step closer to losing the shame, loving your brain, and living better with ADHD.

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  Rewrite Your Life - Discover...

  Jessica Lourey

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  Learn the Art of Storytelling“A step-by-step guide for writers struggling to create fiction from their life . . . delivers on its promise with such honesty, simplicity, and beauty.”—William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author
   
  #1 Bestseller in Self-Help, CreativityShortlisted for an Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction!
   
  Tender, raw, and laugh-out-loud funny, Rewrite Your Life offers both a map and a compass for those seeking to harvest their life experiences to heal, lead a more authentic life, and craft a rich, powerful work of fiction.
   
  According to common wisdom, we all have a book inside of us. But how do we select and then write our most significant story—the one that helps us to evolve and invites pure creativity into our lives? In Rewrite Your Life, creative writing professor, sociologist, and popular fiction author Jess Lourey guides you through the redemptive process of writing a healing novel that recycles and transforms your most precious resources—your own emotions and experiences.
   
  There’s more to writing that meets the eye. This fact-to-fiction process provides not only the essential building blocks of bestselling novels but is also personally transformative. Based on the process the author developed and field-tested in the wake of her husband’s suicide, Rewrite Your Life is devoted to the practice of discovering, healing, and evolving through fiction writing. It combines research, practical and engaging guidance, and personal experience to meet readers where they are and take their creativity and personal growth to the next level.
   
  Rewrite your life teaches you to:
   
  Navigate the inner process to telling a storyUse tools and tactics to master fiction writingUncover the stories through your experiencesIf you have read books such as Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, How to Be Heard, or Story Power, you will love Rewrite Your Life.

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  The Succulent Kiss

  Tina Kay

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  A testament to the strength of the human spirit and the transformative power of self-love. 
  Tina Kay dreamt of a fairytale romance, and when she met Steve, he seemed like the perfect soulmate. But what started as a love story unraveled into heartbreak, forcing her to question everything she believed about love. 
  In The Succulent Kiss, Tina shares her true story of survival. She chronicles her harrowing escape from the grips of mental and physical abuse, to reclaim her identity and discover the juicy romance she longed for. 
  Whether you’re on a journey of self-discovery, supporting a loved one, or seeking to better understand the complexities of abuse and recovery, The Succulent Kiss offers emotional insight to the power of courage and love.

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  May Contain Lies - How Stories...

  Alex Edmans

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  Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines, and the pronouncements of politicians, executives, and authors. Stories, statistics, and studies are everywhere, allowing people to find evidence to support whatever position they want. Many of these sources are flawed, yet by playing on our emotions and preying on our biases, they can gain widespread acceptance, warp our views, and distort our decisions. 
   
   
    
  In this eye-opening book, renowned economist Alex Edmans teaches us how to separate fact from fiction. Using colorful examples—from a wellness guru's tragic but fabricated backstory to the blunders that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster to the diet that ensnared millions yet hastened its founder's death—Edmans highlights the biases that cause us to mistake statements for facts, facts for data, data for evidence, and evidence for proof. 
   
   
    
  Armed with the knowledge of what to guard against, he then provides a practical guide to combat this tide of misinformation. Going beyond simply checking the facts and explaining individual statistics, Edmans explores the relationships between statistics—the science of cause and effect—ultimately training us to think smarter, sharper, and more critically.

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