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  Hell I Didn't Even Like Al...

  Brian Mannix

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  A humorous journey through the United States, seen through the eyes of Musician, Actor and Writer, Brian Mannix.  
  See why Hawaii looks more like a children’s birthday party, how clever drug dealers beat the cops, meet some incredible idiots, be amazed at how America gouges you for money, check out Rock n Roll history, the greatest amusement ride in the world, food that is guaranteed to help you lose weight, why it is important not to go shopping drunk, a shit-fight with a very mouthy evangelist, the quirky world of legal and illegal drugs, and a whole lot more! 
  Most of all, find out why this book is called 'Hell…I Didn’t Even Like Al Green!' 
  Great sound effects and music make this book more like a radio play. You will feel like you are there! 

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  Herbert Warren Wind's Golf Book

  Herbert Warren Wind

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  Elegant and perceptive musings on the world’s greatest game from the dean of American golf writers  This illuminating collection features many of Hebert Warren Wind’s most famous essays, including “Jones Breaks Through,” his masterful portrait of Bobby Jones’s first major championship, won in an epic eighteen-hole playoff against Bobby Cruickshank at the 1923 US Open, and “North to the Links of Dornoch,” an evocative travelogue that established the venerable course in the Scottish Highlands as one of golf’s premier destinations.   Wind captures Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, and Ken Venturi in their prime, and brings readers back to an earlier era when Harry Vardon ruled the links. He profiles golf’s female pioneers—Mickey Wright, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, and Joyce Wethered—and sings the praises of Bernard Darwin, “the greatest writer on golf the world has ever known.” In his Sports Illustrated deadline ode, “The 1958 Masters: Palmer at the Fateful Corner,” Wind brings Arnold Palmer’s first major championship to vivid life and coins Augusta National’s most iconic and enduring term: “Amen Corner.”   Lyrical, evocative, and insightful, Herbert Warren Wind’s Golf Book is a must-read for students of the game and fans of classic sports journalism.  

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  Cheese Curd for Bait

  James McIntyre

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Cheese Curd for Bait by James McIntyre. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 23, 2012.James McIntyre, born in Scotland, came to Canada in 1841. He finally settled in Ingersoll (a town in central Ontario on the banks of the Thames River), the then-heart of Canadian dairy country.He was well loved in the community, from which he often received aid in hard times, due in part to his poesy and oratorical skills — he was called on to speak at every kind of social gathering in Ingersoll. The region seems to have inspired him, and it was in celebration of the proud history of Canada, the natural beauty and industry of the region, and especially its cheese, that the majority of his oeuvre was written. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  Patrick Henry - Champion of Liberty

  Jon Kukla

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  “A brilliant orator, a firebrand for freedom and individual rights, Henry stands as an American luminary, and Kukla’s magisterial biography shines the glow of achievement on subject and author alike” (Richmond Times Dispatch). Patrick Henry restores its subject, long underappreciated in history as a founding father, to his seminal place in the story of American independence.Patrick Henry is best known for his fiery declaration, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” Born in 1736, he became an attorney and planter before being elected as the first governor of Virginia after independence, winning reelection several times. After declining to attend the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Henry opposed the Constitution, arguing that it granted too much power to the central government. He pushed vigorously for the ten amendments to the new Constitution, and then supported Washington and national unity against the bitter party divisions of the 1790s. Henry denounced slavery as evil, but he accepted its continuation. Henry was enormously influential in his time, but many of his accomplishments were subsequently all but forgotten. Jon Kukla’s “detailed, compelling…definitive” (Kirkus Reviews) biography restores Henry and his Virginia compatriots to the front rank of advocates for American independence. Kukla has thoroughly researched Henry’s life, even living on one of Henry’s estates. He brings both newly discovered documents and new insights to Henry, the Revolution, the Constitutional era, and the early Republic. This “informational and enlightening biography of the great agitator for democracy” (Library Journal) is a vital contribution to our understanding of the nation’s founding.

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  Drought and famine threaten life...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Many regions in East Africa are at risk of famine for the third time in 25 years. Twenty million people in the war-torn countries of Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia, as well as drought-stricken neighbors like Ethiopia are at risk. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, on the crisis and relief efforts.

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  Christmas - In Stories and Poetry

  William Wordsworth, Fyodor...

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  Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day.   
   
  Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas, seem amplified, we seem more tender to their touch, their words. 
   
  In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.-  
  1 - Christmas. In Stories and in Poetry - An Introduction 
  2 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott 
  3 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  4 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  5 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson 
  6 - Minstrels.  A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 
  7 - Carol by Ben Jonson 
  8 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  9 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton 
  10 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere 
  11 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 
  12 - No Mercy Here by Daniel Sheehan 
  13 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
  14 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  15 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  16 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick 
  17 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton 
  18 - Nativity by John Donne 
  19 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
  20 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan 
  21 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling 
  22 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan 
  23 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 
  24 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  25 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi 
  26 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell 
  27 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell 
  28 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan 
  29 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats 
  30 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson 
  31 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick 
  32 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan 
  33 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy 
  34 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton 
  35 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe 
  36 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  37 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  38 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti 
  39 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson 
  40 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  41 - Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti

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