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  The Monopolists - Obsession Fury...

  Mary Pilon

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  The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most think it was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers during the Great Depression in 1935 and lived happily-and richly-ever after. That story, however, is not exactly true. Ralph Anspach, a professor fighting to sell his Anti-Monopoly board game decades later, unearthed the real story, which traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and a forgotten feminist named Lizzie Magie who invented her nearly identical Landlord's Game more than thirty years before Parker Brothers sold their version of Monopoly. Her game-underpinned by morals that were the exact opposite of what Monopoly represents today-was embraced by a constellation of left-wingers from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression, including members of Franklin Roosevelt's famed Brain Trust. A fascinating social history of corporate greed that illuminates the cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, The Monopolists reads like the best detective fiction, told through Monopoly's real-life winners and losers.

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  Starting From Scratch: A...

  Richard Anderson

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  A detailed description of the memoirs of Richard Andersone BCA. This book explores how he went from being an underprivileged young child to becoming a successful social entrepreneur helping over 10’000 active students in over 109 countries. 
  Andersone details how he became a Breakfast Show presenter, a non executive director, was unanimously voted to be a co-chair for a government board and was honoured at Westminster Palace at the House of Lords with a British Citizens award. 
  Follow the journey of Richard Andersone as he unveils what he did to change his life. 
  See if you can take inspiration from his insights and how he started his life, career and family from a little below scratch. 
  “Richard Andersone is an inspiration” Neil Oliver - GB News SKY 515.

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  Scott of the Antarctic - The...

  Sue Blackhall

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  A fascinating biography of the British explorer whose legendary expedition to the South Pole was shrouded in controversy and tragedy.   Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868-29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all perished from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.   Before his appointment to lead the Discovery Expedition, Scott had followed the conventional career of a naval officer in peacetime Victorian Britain. It was the chance for personal distinction that led Scott to apply for the Discovery command, rather than any predilection for polar exploration. However, having taken this step, his name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic, the field of work to which he remained committed during the final twelve years of his life.   Following the news of his death, Scott became an iconic British hero, a status maintained and reflected today by the many permanent memorials erected across the nation.   Sue Blackhall reassesses the causes of the disaster that ended his and his comrades’ lives, and the extent of Scott’s personal culpability. From a previously unassailable position, Scott has become a figure of controversy, with questions raised about his competence and character. However, more recent research has on the whole regarded Scott more positively, emphasizing his personal bravery and stoicism while acknowledging his errors, but ascribing his expedition’s fate primarily to misfortune.

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  Finding Grace - A True Story...

  Donna VanLiere

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  Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's journey of broken dreams. It is the story of how a painful legacy of the past is confronted and met with peace. This book is for anyone who has struggled to understand why our desires—even the simplest ones—are sometimes denied or who has questioned where God is when we need Him most. This story is about one woman's unlikely road to motherhood. Finally, it's a book about the "undeserved gift which is life itself." It's the story of "Finding Grace."Donna VanLiere has entertained millions with her inspirational stories. In her new book, she gives us a candid look into her own life—a life filled with suffering and pain, but one that ultimately finds peace with itself.

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  The Clouds Ye So Much Dread -...

  Hannah K. Grieser

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  The Clouds Ye So Much Dread is a beautiful blend of memoir, theology, meditation, and storytelling.Each of these chapters — from dreading the birth of her first child, to living in unfamiliar and dangerous places, to facing the news that her son had been diagnosed with cancer — describes the stories through which Hannah K. Grieser has come to see that hard or uncertain circumstances, rather than being cause for doubt and dread, can instead become the unasked-for means that our loving Father uses to turn us toward Him and to show us His faithfulness.Told in Hannah's graceful yet punchy prose, the reflections in this powerful audiobook will challenge listeners to revisit their own hard times and see how God can take the storms that we most fear and turn them into downpours of blessings.

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  Summary of Kevin Hart & Neil...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kevin Hart & Neil Strauss's I Can't Make This Up 
    
  I Can’t Make This Up (2017) is superstar comedian Kevin Hart’s funny, heartbreaking, and inspiring memoir about survival, achievement, and the value of believing in yourself. Written with bestselling author Neil Strauss, the memoir starts with Hart’s childhood and chronicles all the obstacles he has faced. His father was a heroin addict who was in and out of jail, his sibling was a minor thief and a crack dealer, and his mother was harsh, slapping him with belts, frying pans, and even his own toys. 
  Hart overcame family problems, struggles in school, and a rocky start as a comedian in his rise to international fame, wealth, and success. He did it not only through hard work, determination, and talent, but also via his unique perspective on the world. Hart sees life like a book - a collection of chapters that we each get to compose for ourselves. 
   

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