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  Broken Biscuits: And other male...

  Adam Farrer

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  Witty, tender and daring essays from the British David Sedaris 
  'A lovely writer: supple, stylish and almost effortlessly witty.' Daily Mail 
  'Made me laugh out loud and then properly cry.’ Jennie Godfrey 
  When it comes to the challenge of being a man, Adam Farrer always seems to find a way to fall short… 
  Broken Biscuits vividly recounts Adam’s struggles to live up to masculine expectations, real or imagined. From the calamity of his first serious relationship to an obsession with Prince that sees everyone questioning his sexuality, and from the repercussions of his adult circumcision to his doubts about his ability to survive the apocalypse, this candid and personal collection of essays is astonishingly far-reaching and riotously funny. 
  Holding up a mirror to Adam’s own body image, his relationship with his family, his sense of self-worth and the mortifying experience of arriving at a teenage party wearing strawberry-patterned short shorts, this book is about growing up and trying to define yourself as a man but somehow always missing the mark. 
  Told in a candid, comic form, these memoirs sit at the crossroads of non-fiction, autobiography, and biography, turning personal missteps into razor-edged humour. With an undercurrent of social and gender studies, Farrer interrogates what masculinity demands—and what it costs—without ever losing the laugh-out-loud bite. 
  For fans of Alison Bechdel (Are You My Mother?), Terrance Hayes (To Float in the Space Between), Zadie Smith (Dead and Alive), Carmen Maria Machado (In the Dream House), and Gary Stevenson (The Trading Game). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  Woman Up!: Your Guide to Success...

  Anat Rapoport

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  Have you ever felt your career's trajectory was in someone else's hands? 
  In the male-dominated world of engineering, breaking through barriers and claiming your rightful place can seem like an impossible challenge. Yet for Anat Rapoport, this challenge was an opportunity, not just for her, but for women everywhere. 
  In 2015, she stood on the cusp of a significant promotion. With every project milestone achieved, deadline met, and positive feedback garnered, she felt ready. But was her career trajectory truly in her hands, or was it subject to the whims of superiors/ mercy of the higher-ups? An illuminating conversation with a friend shattered this illusion. The power, Anat realized, had always been hers. 
  In Woman Up!: Your Guide to Success in Engineering and Tech, Anat delves deep into her journey, detailing the internal and external obstacles women commonly face in their careers. Drawing from her rich experience in both corporate and startup spaces, she lays out strategies to tackle discrimination, loneliness, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome. 
  The message is clear: your career's path isn't determined by others but by your own tenacity, decisions, and actions. 
  Don't just be a spectator of your own life. Take charge of your journey, and let Anat guide you every step of the way. 
  Get your copy now and redefine your path to success! 
  ANAT RAPOPORT, a distinguished leader in the tech arena, has ascended through the ranks, establishing herself as an authoritative voice and a beacon for women in engineering. As a VP at multiple companies, most of them are AI-based companies, her achievements speak for themselves. Armed with an MSc from Tel Aviv University and a stellar background with the Israel Defense Forces 8200.

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  GööKA From the Village to the...

  Eng Peter NDUATI

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  Live life forwards but understand it by looking backwards. In the book, the author’s 21st-century daily experiences are mirrored in his village days. From the comfort of a ZOOM class, jog around the estate and make rare encounters. Walk with him through libraries, hit ( ) golf balls, visit the beach and learn a thing or two about hyenas, lions and leopards. 
  These experiences are made especially interesting with historical, social, scientific, and mathematical satire as the author seeks to fulfil his 10,000-step daily requirement for fitness, monitored by his new master, ‘Googlefit’. Whatever age or career, the experiences in this anthology of 24 stories make you reflect on your life and laugh or cry.

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  Richard III (Makers of History...

  Jacob Abbott

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  Jacob Abbott chronicles the unspeakably treacherous rise of Richard III to the throne of England in the midst of the war between the Yorks and the Lancasters and his ultimate fall on the Field of Bosworth. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)

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  The Bomb Doctor - A Scientist's...

  Selene Yeager, Kirk Yeager

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  This is not CSI. What you encounter as a true bomb detective—or "Bomb Doctor," as some in the FBI call me—are fields of twisted metal containing soot-covered fragments intermingled with human remains. You have carnage and chaos. As you wade into that sea of wailing sirens and screaming survivors awash with the stench of diesel fuel and decaying bodies, your job is to ferret out forensic clues in a type of macabre scavenger hunt to ultimately reconstruct the scene and the explosive device and determine what happened and what the bomb looked like before it was torn asunder. 
   
   
   
  The scavenger hunt can take months—or, in the case of the infamous Collar Bomber, seven painstaking years. The work is worth every second and every horrific image that etches itself into your brain because it helps prevent new horrors. Not all, obviously. We are not superheroes. But unlike shooters, who often just "snap" or seem to act out in random ways, bombers almost always have a story—one that follows an arc. 
   
   
   
  In The Bomb Doctor, my goal is to explain that arc, explode myths, reconstruct reality, and build an understanding of the reason and means behind the mayhem, as well as pull back the curtain on the investigative process that brings bombers to justice.

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  Yoke - My Yoga of Self-Acceptance

  Jessamyn Stanley

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  Finding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. In Sanskrit, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body, movement and breath, light and dark, the good and the bad. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday—a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. In a series of deeply honest, funny autobiographical essays, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself, all through the lens of yoke. She calls out an American yoga complex that prefers debating the merits of cotton versus polyblend leggings rather than owning up to its overwhelming Whiteness. She questions why the Western take on yoga so often misses—or misuses—the tradition’s spiritual dimension. And reveals what she calls her own “whole-ass problematic”: Growing up Baháí, loving astrology, learning to meditate, finding prana in music. And in the end, Jessamyn invites every reader to find the authentic spirit of yoke—linking that good and that bad, that light and that dark.

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