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  Calvin Peete - Golf's Forgotten...

  Gordon Hobson

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  His story is unprecedented in the world of golf. Born to a family of migrant laborers, Calvin Peete dropped out of school in the eighth grade, went to work picking crops, first swung a golf club at the age of twenty-three—and rose to the top of the PGA. 
   
   
   
  In Calvin Peete: Golf's Forgotten Star, Gordon Hobson tells for the first time Peete's incredible story. Hobson recounts how, when Peete joined the lily-white PGA tour in 1976, he stood out from the competition in more ways than one. Peete wasn't raised in country clubs and didn't learn the game at prestigious golf universities. He had a permanently bent left elbow and practiced endless hours in a public park to develop one of the most accurate swings in the history of golf. He endured years of futility and despair, but, eventually, he emerged as the best player on the Tour from 1982–86. 
   
   
   
  Calvin Peete's story is inspiring, but it also reveals the struggles many Black golfers endured even after the Caucasian-only clause was removed from the PGA's bylaws. He may have won twelve championships, played on the US Ryder Cup team twice, and won the prestigious Vardon Award, but the road to success wasn't easy. Calvin Peete: Golf's Forgotten Star shows how, even without the advantages some people are born into, one can find success through hard work, determination, and fortitude.

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  Ruin - A Novel of Flyfishing in...

  Leigh Seippel

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  Frank is another dreamer whose life is suddenly burned to the ground. More a disillusioned literature PhD than an experienced financier, he had naively agreed to join his wife's inheritance with his own personal guarantee of a college friend's private equity partnership debt. 
   
   
   
  ­The business implosion and subsequent bankruptcy took all their assets. Francy, an orphaned European heiress, now finds herself homeless, still married to pleasant, witty Frank—who had failed to protect them from disaster. 
   
   
   
  ­The couple flees Manhattan to live at a desolate non-working Hudson Valley farm. Frank starts an artisanal brewery with a charismatic new eccentric friend. And, central to the heart of the story, he takes up fly fishing. 
   
   
   
  Frank's perceptions on the water are fresh and acute, sometimes colored by his memory of the words of famous writers, now painfully ironic in his life's new context. 
   
   
   
  And throughout, there is Francy's story. Now in exile, she re-approaches painting with new and darkly complex emotional energy. Her work's enigmatic intensity attracts a wealthy neighbor who offers Francy a show in his Manhattan gallery and that attracts a great deal of trouble indeed.

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  The Tennis Champion Who Escaped...

  Felice Hardy

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  'A fabulous story guaranteed to capture people’s imagination' Mail on Sunday 
  'Stunningly descriptive, compelling writing. I was moved close to tears on several occasions.' Peter James, international bestselling crime writer 
  In 1930, at the age of twenty-seven, Liesl Herbst was the Austrian National Tennis Champion, a celebrity in Vienna. Liesl, her husband David and their daughter Dorli came to Britain after escaping the Nazis. 
  In London, though initially stripped of their Austrian passports and rendered stateless aliens, both Liesl and her daughter Dorli competed at Wimbledon. They remain the only mother and daughter ever to have played doubles together at Wimbledon. 
  This moving story of escape and survival is told by Liesl’s grand-daughter, Dorli’s daughter. Some of the story, the author heard first-hand from her grandmother; the rest, she has meticulously researched over many years in four countries. It is as much a search for the author’s own identity as for her own children and grandchildren to ensure that their remarkable family history is never lost again. 
  Illustrated throughout with family photographs and original documents, this is a story of survival against terrible odds, an inspiring tale of resilience and hope.

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  Inner Trek - A Reluctant Pilgrim...

  Mohan Ranga Rao

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  A memoir of a road less traveled and a true story of self-discovery at 18,000 feet. 
  After being threatened by a Bangalore mob boss, retired Indian businessman Mohan Ranga Rao makes a vow: if he somehow gets out of the situation, he will thank the gods by going on Kailash Mansarovar—a holy mountain pilgrimage in Tibet. What starts out as merely a challenging high-altitude trek soon becomes a life-changing adventure. With a blend of humor, honesty, and keen insight, Mohan journeys toward a deeper understanding of himself and the world around him.

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  Religious Affections

  Jonathan Edwards

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  Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a pre-revolutionary American pastor and academic in Massachusetts, and is also widely considered to be both the last of the great Puritans, and a founder of modern evangelicalism. In 1732, his church and many churches in the surrounding region experienced “The Great Awakening”, a massive religious revival. The Great Awakening saw many people having heightened “affections”, or emotions, in response to their increased spirituality – this included excessive weeping, joyous outbursts, and many other manifestations that concerned more conservative people around them. Edwards wrote Religious Affections in order to show that affections could be a legitimate part of Christian spirituality, but only when conjoined with sound theology and godly practice. The book now stands as a classic in the field of Christian spirituality. (Summary by  Matthew James Gray)

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  God Likes Jujitsu Volume 4: At...

  Shivananda Sena Das

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  Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj introduced the Western World to 
  Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. His Divine Grace’s best friend Srila 
  Bhaktivedanta Narayan Goswami Maharaj, continued nourishing members of this 
  mission established by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada. 
  Prabhupada’s desire is to spread the teachings of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to 
  everyone on planet Earth. Every town and village. Bhaktisiddhanta directly received 
  the path of spiritual perfection from his birth father Srila Bhaktivinod Thakura. 
  These most prominent Gaudiya Vaishnavas followed the instructions of the six 
  Gosvamies of Vrindavan writings. Svayam Bhagavan Sri Krishna in His most recent 
  full incarnation as Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is the original Guru of these six 
  renunciate saints. He taught pure devotional love of God by practicing it Himself. 
  At the Door of the Master attemptsto serve the Bhagavat disciplic succession 
  by pointing to Her Grace Srimati Jadurani/Symarani Dasi Gosvamani. She is a perfect 
  servant of Radha and Krishna in this pure line of Mahaprabhu. 
  Shivananda Sena Das is a martial artist in his early seventies approaching fifty- 
  six years of formal practice. This audiobook speaks to the mission of Guru and 
  Gauranga Mahaprabhu from Shiva’s angle of research and development both 
  martially and spiritually.

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