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  My Amazing 35 Year Journey...

  Brad Koerner

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  This is the audiobook of Part 1 of my memoir, My Amazing 35 Year Journey Abroad. I open the book at a time in my life when I was living in an unheated garage in the dead of winter in Chicago and that came about because of my alcoholism. The year was 1981 and I was 28 years old. By this time in my life I had been kicked out of college, fired from 2 jobs including being fired by my father for crashing my company car drunk, divorced once with another one on the way, and I was broke and jobless. I would then pick myself up and brush myself off and get hired as a stockbroker by Dean Witter Reynolds. I would then blow that great opportunity by, you guessed it, abusing alcohol, and after working for 3 different brokerage houses, I would then quit drinking, start my modeling career, take an inadvertent 1 week ski trip to Austria, and then decide not to get on that return flight to Chicago, but instead would take a train from innsbruck to Nice, France where I would work as a model and actor, and then after a few months in Nice, I would move to Paris where I would live for 6 or so months, and then because of a suggestion from a photographer during a job there, I would end up flying to Singapore where I would work as a model and actor there, then after about 6 months there, I would end up moving to NYC to study acting and work as an actor there, and during my day job, I worked as a skate guard at Rockefeller Center where I would work with LIberace during his show there celebrating the skating rinks 50th birthday and there are photos in the book to prove it. Then from NYC I would move to Hong Kong where I would work as a featured actor in 4 movies, including a role in Kickboxer. I would then move to Bangkok, Thailand where I would start my nudie photography career and become the most prolifice photographer of naked Asian girls in the world. It is now 2024 and I am still in Thailand, retired here at the age of 70.

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  Dear Mr Snippet - A conversation...

  Roseanna Rolph

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  My dearest Mr Snippet… 
  World War II has just begun, and newly-married John, a young cadet army officer 
  from London, has been forced to leave behind his beloved wife Rita. As each of them 
  desperately try to hold onto their joint hopes and dreams, will fate grant them the future 
  they dream of, or will the unpredictabilities of a relentless war conspire against them? 
  Through their passionate, witty and heartfelt letters, personal diary entries and family 
  photographs, Dear Mr Snippet chronicles John and Rita’s parallel yet contrasting lives, 
  lived through the tensions and brutalities of World War II, Dunkirk and the Battle of 
  Normandy. 
  Collated by their granddaughter, Roseanna Rolph, Dear Mr Snippet is a truly 
  compelling and unique historical memoir that transports readers back to another time, 
  whilst shedding light on the struggles faced by military families to this day.

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  Black and Female - Essays

  Tsitsi Dangarembga

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  The first wound for all of us who are classified as "black" is empire. 
   
   
   
  In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied African life. This paradigm-shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of race and gender. Dangarembga recounts a painful separation from her parents as a toddler, connecting this experience to the ruptures caused in Africa by human trafficking and enslavement. She argues that, after independence, the ruling party in Zimbabwe only performed inclusion for women while silencing the work of self-actualized feminists. She describes her struggles to realize her ambitions in theater, film, and literature, laying out the long path to the publication of her novels. 
   
   
   
  At once philosophical, intimate, and urgent, Black and Female is a powerful testimony of the pervasive and long-lasting effects of racism and patriarchy that provides an ultimately hopeful vision for change. Black feminists are "the status quo's worst nightmare." Dangarembga writes, "our conviction is deep, bolstered by a vivid imagination that reminds us that other realities are possible beyond the one that obtains."

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  In the Mind of Stalin

  James Greensmith

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  On 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty and soon to be the UK’s wartime leader, described Russia as ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’. The same can certainly be said of Stalin. How can this paradox of a man, who on the one hand had once exhibited great tenderness and kindness to his daughter Svetlana, and on the other sent millions – including members of his own family - to their deaths, be explained? 
   
  It is impossible to quantify the total number of deaths attributable to the policies of Stalin, but the ‘Excess Mortality’ (i.e., deaths over and above what would normally have been expected during the period in question) gives an approximate figure in excess of 40 million. 
   
  However, this is only part of the story of the amount of misery inflicted by the Stalin regime through torture, deliberate starvation, neglect, separation from loved ones, cold and hypothermia (e.g. in the prisons of Siberia), which is unquantifiable and unimaginable. 
   
  Svetlana confessed that she ‘would never undertake to “explain” what motivated all my father’s actions, simply because I do not possess the psychological genius of [Russian novelist] Dostoevsky, who knew how to “penetrate” into another man’s soul and “examine it from within”’.

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  The Art of Cooking - A Chef’s...

  Peter C. Brenner Jr. CEC

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  “Ever since I was a toddler and learned how to crawl, I would enter the kitchen…. I would pull open drawers and search through the cabinets.”- Peter C. Brenner.Not everyone finds their passion early in life. But as a child, Peter loved exploring new things, and one day he found his mother cooking a delicious meal in the kitchen. That’s when he decided to become a world class Chef.So, what is it like to be a Chef at a star-rated hotel? Certainly nothing less than a messy adventure! MESSY for real.As you read through the book, you will find Peter’s dramatic life taking various turns as he tries to steer clear of turbulent times. However, life as a Chef is never easy and he is not able to set his feet on the ground for a long time.Once he does, life challenges him to let go of the comfort and instead pursue his lifelong idea of opening his own restaurant. That’s some risky business! Will he be able to do it?Read through the pages as you find Peter breezing through his life as a successful chef and introducing some recipes that hardly anyone in America has ever heard of.

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  But For God

  Aaze Tom Adaba

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  "A panoramic overview of this memoir traverses my lifespan from conception and birth till date – my growing up years and foster care, my pursuits of education and career, and the cultivation of family – interspersed with failures, disappointments and health challenges, amid moments of exhilaration, surprise encounters and joyful outcomes along the way." - A T Adaba.

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