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  As Long as You Need - Permission...

  J. S. Park

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  "A heartfelt invitation for grieving readers...An excellent resource for those working their way through loss." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review  
  Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to grieve and heal at your own pace. 
  In As Long As You Need, J.S. offers an honest and unrushed engagement with grief, decoding four types of grieving—spiritual, mental, physical, and relational—and offering compassionate self-care and soul-care along the way. 
  If you are struggling to process loss, pain, or grief from the last few years or the last few minutes, J.S. is an experienced and deeply empathetic listener and grief catcher who has held the pain and questions of thousands of patients. While social and cultural narratives about grief are dominated by "letting go, moving on, or turning the page" in his nearly decade of service as a chaplain at a major hospital with a designated level one trauma center J.S. understands firsthand how rushing or suppressing grief only adds a suffocating layer of pain on top of the original wound. 
  From his unique window into the stories of the ill, injured, dying, and their families, J.S. offers you:Permission to dismantle all too common myths about grief and replace them with a guilt-free and unrushed approach to navigating your losses.Encouragement for how entering grief, rather than avoiding it, leads to a hard but meaningful holding of your loss.Empathy and hope if you are struggling with a crisis of faith in the midst of grief.Recognition that grief spans a wide narrative of loss: loss of future, faith, mental health, worth, autonomy, connection, and loved ones.Affirmation that your grief is your own. While the DNA of grief might be universal to the human condition, how you experience and process grief is unique to you. 
    
  From the ER to deliveries to deathbeds across every sort of illness and injury imaginable, J.S. Park has provided meaningful counseling for people in all walks of life and death. Now, through his book he wants to assure you that, while everybody else might rush past your pain, grief is the voice that says, take as long as you need.

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  Justice for Sale - Graft Greed...

  Gary Stein

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  The never-before-told story of Martin T. Manton, a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. From his misconduct, to his co-conspirators, to the sensational prosecution and trial, this is the exhaustively researched account of a discovery that shocked the nation. 
  Martin T. Manton was a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. At the time, this was a hugely important story: Manton was considered the highest-ranking judge in the United States after the nine Justices of the Supreme Court and was nearly appointed to that august body in 1922. Yet his story has never been told in book-length form before, and never with the benefit of such exhaustive research. 
  More than just a biography, this book examines Manton’s misconduct in the context of the culture of corruption and organized crime that permeated New York City in the first part of the twentieth century. Dozens of others—prominent business executives, leading Wall Street lawyers, accountants, bankers, fixers, con men, another federal judge—participated in Manton’s crimes. The book profiles these unscrupulous and often colorful characters as well. 
  Manton and his corrupt schemes were finally brought down but not until Manhattan district attorney and future presidential candidate Thomas Dewey’s successful pursuit of Manton, a federal grand jury investigation, and a sensational prosecution and trial in federal court that shocked the nation.

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  John Belushi - A Life from...

  Hourly History

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  John Belushi lived his life on his own terms. He didn't answer to anyone, and he didn't hold back for an instant. He was an extroverted performer from the earliest days of his youth, always eager to get attention—some might even say approval—from his peers. It was this desire for recognition that drove him to push as hard as he did. 
  Belushi pushed himself until he was able to use a combination of charisma, talent, and sheer willpower to make a name for himself on the national stage. He portrayed a lovable frat boy in Animal House and an unsung blues hero in the epic film The Blues Brothers. John Belushi could steal the show just as easily as he stole our hearts. This is his life—this is his story, in full.

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  Alexander the Great

  Jacob Abbott

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  Alexander the Great died when he was quite young. He was but thirty-two years of age when he ended his career, and as he was about twenty when he commenced it, it was only for a period of twelve years that he was actually engaged in performing the work of his life. Napoleon was nearly three times as long on the great field of human action.    Notwithstanding the briefness of Alexander's career, he ran through, during that short period, a very brilliant series of exploits, which were so bold, so romantic, and which led him into such adventures in scenes of the greatest magnificence and splendor, that all the world looked on with astonishment then, and mankind have continued to read the story since, from age to age, with the greatest interest and attention.

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  What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

  Thomas Nagel

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  "Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable." So begins Thomas Nagel's classic 1974 essay "What is it Like to be a Bat?" Nagel's essay initiated the now widespread attention to consciousness as a central problem for philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience; it also influenced the recognition of the consciousness of nonhuman creatures as an important subject of study. Nagel argued that the essential subjectivity of conscious experience—what it is like for the creature undergoing it—means that reductionist theories of mind, which attempt to analyze it in physical terms, can never succeed. It follows that the physical sciences cannot provide a complete description of reality, and that the physical conception of objective reality must be transcended if science is going to comprehend the mind. 
   
   
   
  This edition reissues this classic and widely influential article on its fiftieth anniversary, along with a new preface discussing the origins and influence of the essay, as well as "Further Thoughts: The Psychophysical Nexus," a supplementary essay which describes Nagel's later thoughts about how to respond to the problem posed by "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

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  The Complete Novels of Charles...

  CharlesDickens Dickens

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  Discover the unforgettable stories of one of the greatest novelists in literary history through this complete collection of timeless classics.
  
  Explore "The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens," a remarkable anthology bringing together the celebrated novels of one of the most influential authors in English literature. Renowned for his unforgettable characters, vivid storytelling, social insight, and masterful prose, Charles Dickens created enduring works that continue to captivate readers around the world.
  
  This comprehensive collection offers readers the opportunity to experience Dickens's extraordinary literary achievement through compelling narratives, richly developed characters, and unforgettable settings. His novels explore universal themes of family, friendship, justice, compassion, ambition, poverty, hope, resilience, redemption, love, and the complexities of Victorian society. Blending humor, drama, emotional depth, and sharp social observation, his works remain among the greatest masterpieces of English and world literature.
  
  Widely regarded as one of the defining voices of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens profoundly influenced literature through his powerful storytelling and memorable characters. His timeless novels have inspired countless adaptations for film, television, theater, and stage, securing his place among the greatest storytellers of all time.
  
  Perfect for readers who enjoy classic literature, Victorian fiction, English literature, literary fiction, historical fiction, family sagas, nineteenth-century classics, and timeless literary masterpieces, "The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens" is an essential addition to every digital library.
  
  Experience the brilliance of one of literature's greatest storytellers. Add "The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens" to your Kindle library today and enjoy a timeless collection of unforgettable novels.

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