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  Get in the Game - Nothing...

  Kevin Atlas

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  Be inspired by the story of Kevin Atlas (formerly Laue), whose faith and perseverance helped him become an NCAA Division I basketball player, despite being born with only one arm.Even before entering the world, Kevin Atlas was a fighter. He should have died in childbirth, as the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck twice, but he survived because his left arm was in the middle of it, allowing blood to flow to his brain. But since circulation was cut off in that arm, he was born with his left arm ending just below his elbow.  GET IN THE GAME is Kevin's story of transformation: Moving from anger to joy. From embarrassment to confidence. From the sidelines and wishing his life was different to getting in the game and showing who he is. Kevin's arduous journey to earning a scholarship to Manhattan College in New York City and becoming the first NCAA Division I basketball player missing a limb has given him keen insights to help anyone who feels trapped and defeated by less-than-perfect circumstances, whether physical, mental, or environmental. Kevin doesn't encourage readers to simply accept and live with their challenges, hurts, and losses. He spurs them on to believe any weakness can, in reality, become the one thing that propels them to achieve their greatest potential. As Kevin has learned throughout his life, you can't win if you don't get in the game!

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  Like No Other Soldier - The...

  Rob Lewis

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  Like No Other Soldier continues the true story told in Fishers of Menof Rob Lewis’s life after he leaves the Force Research Unit (FRU).Staying on in Northern Ireland as a civilian after years of working on undercover missions against terrorists, Rob eventually gains employment in Bristol, undertaking security work, but things don’t work out and Rob ends up living in a squat.After a job offer from an old colleague, Rob heads to London to work in close-protection security for some of Hollywood’s royalty - Tom Cruise, Liam Neeson, Nicole Kidman and Mel Gibson among them - and later becomes involved in the rescue of some very well-connected people from a dangerous religious cult. Rob’s life seems to be getting back on track.But Rob’s work soon becomes more covert, and he ends up being on the wrong side of a police armed response unit whilst undertaking surveillance tasks, and is later arrested as a suspect when the ‘Stevens Enquiry’ building in Belfast - where detectives investigating the alleged collusion between his old unit and Loyalist paramilitaries are based - is set on fire.As Rob becomes involved in ever more shadowy surveillance and private security operations, he attracts further unwanted police attention, this time from the Serious Organised Crime Agency, and he is charged with fraud, found guilty and sentenced to prison at HMP Wandsworth. Can Rob prove his innocence and reclaim his life?

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  When Your Neurons Dance - The...

  Jonny Acheson

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  As an Emergency Medicine consultant in one of the busiest departments in the United Kingdom, Dr. Jonny Acheson loved his job. Fueled by adrenaline, he treated and cared for some of the sickest patients who came through the doors. 
   
  In 2016, when he was forty-one, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, a progressive neurological condition for which there is no cure. 
   
  He found it increasingly difficult to multitask in his fast-paced world. The environment that he thrived in made his symptoms worse. Parkinson's challenged his professional identity as an emergency doctor, and he didn't know what to do. 
   
  When Your Neurons Dance is about how he is adapting over time with support around him—how he looked to the past to help him in the present, embracing change as new doors opened both inside and outside medicine. 
   
  Ultimately as a doctor practicing with Parkinson's, he found a way to give back, despite a condition that always takes away.

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  Appalachian Gamekeeper's...

  R.L. Pete Wyatt

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  Vol 2 provides an opportunity for yo, the reader, to spend some time with the people and places of Upper East Tennessee, Tennessee's first frontier, The State of Franklin. Come share my experiences. Although I have had to draw my gun and I have had to arrest folks and take them to jail, that was not the norm. This book is a happy memoir. This humorous collection of 22 short stories will give the reader first hand knowledge as to what it is really like to spend some time with an Appalachian Gamekeeper. Travel with me to a world in which you have never been, nor would you go without me as your guide. Meet my bigger than life characters: the Conrad family, a family that still hunts, fishes and gathers wild foods, living by their wits under the shadow of Unaka Mountain. Octogenarians, Asa and his girlfriend, that live in the Sciotio community (pronounced Sci-o-thee) that believe in alien abduction, black painters, haints and other superstitions. Can a hunter bark like a Leopard Hound and tree a bear?What happened on the Appalachian Trail between the game warden and an illegal deer hunter that caused the hunter to have to pray with his preacher ex post facto?Animal trafficker Remus Stout and his polecats had their day in court.Can giant lizards ride a train from Central America to attack a hunter and his dogs in an ambush along the tracks of the Clinchfield Railroad?Can a deer hunter being allergic to time get him acquitted in court? Was the petition to remove game warden Pete Wyatt from Unicoi County successful? These answers and many more will be revealed between the covers of Vol 2.

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  The Heroines of History

  John S. Jenkins

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  A look at some of the famous women in European history. Includes biographies on Cleopatra; Isabella of Castile; Joan of Arc; Maria Theresa; Josephine; Elizabeth of England; Mary of Scotland; Catherine of Russia; Marie Antoinette; and Madame Roland. 
   
   Mr. Jenkins, whose name remains on the title-page of this volume, was prevented from finishing the work for a long time by sickness, and finally by death. The first chapter is from his pen, and the rest has been written according to his instructions by one whom he selected, and who has had access to works rare in this country, such as Monstrelet's Chronicles, Tooke's Life of Catherine II., Madame Roland's Appeal, etc. (Summary by TriciaG & Publisher's Preface)

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  A Wild Path

  Douglas Wood

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  A Wild Path is author Douglas Wood's highly anticipated followup to the critically acclaimed memoir Deep Woods, Wild Waters. He again leads listeners along a meditative path through a wilderness of many dimensions—from the lakes and islands of his beloved Canoe Country to rugged ocean coasts to a mountain chasm, from camping on the Canadian Shield to listening to the soft strains of Beethoven in the pines, and from the pain of childhood wounds to appreciation for a life rich with nature. 
   
   
   
  With the generosity and compassion of a good wilderness guide, Douglas Wood welcomes listeners to accompany him as he navigates his life-path from struggling student and "worst reader in the class" to prolific writer and bestselling author. He offers courage and hope to those who feel different or left behind, and he shares how he found, through the counsel of rocks, trees, and waters, his own way toward joy and wonder and an unshakable sense of belonging. 
   
   
   
  Exploring the meanings of myriad outdoor experiences, Wood seeks to understand the importance and existence of beauty, the emotional poignancy of a wilderness sunset, and the realization of dreams, while also honoring his outdoor and literary mentors, including Sigurd Olson and Aldo Leopold.

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