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  Will the Circle Be Unbroken? - A...

  Sean Dietrich

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  From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you're gonna be alright. 
  Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scattered his father's ashes from the mountain range. His father was a man who lived for baseball, a steel worker with a ready wink, who once scaled a fifty-foot tree just to hang a tire swing for his son. He was also the stranger who tried to kidnap and kill Sean's mother before pulling the trigger on himself. He was a childhood hero, now reduced to a man in a box. 
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken? is the story of what happens after the unthinkable, and the journey we all must make in finding the courage to stop the cycles of the past from laying claim to our future. 
  Sean was a seventh-grade drop-out, a dishwasher then a construction worker to help his mother and sister scrape by, and a self-described "nobody with a sad story behind him." Yet he cannot deny the glimmers of life's goodness even amid its rough edges. Such goodness becomes even harder to deny when Sean meets the love of his life at a fried chicken church potluck, and harder still when his lifelong love of storytelling leads him to stages across the southeast, where he is known and loved as "Sean of the South." 
  A story that will stay with you long after the final page, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? testifies to the strength that lives within us all to make our peace with the past and look to the future with renewed hope and wonder.

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  The Serial Killer’s Apprentice -...

  James Renner

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  Investigative reporter James Renner reopens cold cases that have baffled Clevelanders for years, including: 
   
   
   
  ● Murder—Beverly Jarosz, just sixteen years old, felt a dark foreboding in the months before she was stabbed to death in her quiet Garfield Heights home. It all started with an anonymous gift. 
   
   
   
  ● Stolen Identity—Joseph Newton Chandler was not who he claimed to be. Some think he was the Zodiac killer; others say he was D. B. Cooper, or even Jim Morrison. 
   
   
   
  ● Suicide or murder?—Joseph Kupchik hid gambling problems from friends and family until he was found at the bottom of a nine-story parking deck in downtown Cleveland—with multiple stab wounds. 
   
   
   
  ● Heist—In 1969, Lakewood bank employee Ted Conrad nabbed $215,000 from the vault one day after his twentieth birthday. The FBI still shows up at his high school reunions. 
   
   
   
  ● Controversy—Jeffrey Krotine was thrice tried for the grisly 2003 murder of his wife and ultimately acquitted, to the frustration of prosecutors, detectives, and jurors. 
   
   
   
  These stories venture into dark alleys and strip clubs, as well as suburbs and small towns, where some of the region's most horrendous crimes have occurred.

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  Jibanpurer Bansi

  Khurshid Alam

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  The book is based on the author's forty years of work experience and is a portrait of a long experience of personal life. This book contains an in-depth analysis of the middle-class social system of Bangladesh and the people of coastal communities and their lives as seen by the author from 1955-2000. It reflects the struggling and marginalized people of the country's coastal communities and their livelihoods.

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  Graeme Edge The Moody Blues A...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Graeme Edge was born on 30th March 1941 in Rochester, Staffordshire. His mother was a pianist for the silent movies and his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all music-hall singers. 
   
  Edge trained as a draughtsman but soon went into music full time. He never started out to be a drummer, he was, in fact the manager of a group called the Blue Rhythm Band. Graeme always watched the drummer in the group and fooled around on the drums, but never really drummed professionally until that drummer quit and he had to fill in. He then bought his first drum kit. 
   
  The first band he formed was the Silhouettes followed by The Blue Rhythm Band. He then helped to form Gerry Levene and the Avengers, who recorded a single for Decca, and appeared on TV in "Thank Your Lucky Stars". Following the collapse of this group in April 1964 Edge formed The R & B Preachers, which included Denny Laine and Clint Warwick. When that group disbanded the three of them linked up with Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder to form The M & B 5, which later changed its name to The Moody Blues. 
   
  During the Moodies' break in recording and touring, Graeme released his first solo album KICK OFF YOUR MUDDY BOOTS in 1975. He became particularly enamored with the salsa, calypso, samba, and reggae beats when he visited the Caribbean during his ocean-going voyage round the world in his 70ft yacht.  
   
  Graeme drums with a precision beat while spicing the Moodies' sound with a wide range of percussion instruments. When away from the spotlight he lists his hobbies as sailing, golf, war films and sci-fi - Edge was a confirmed Trekkie.

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  Matchless - Joyce Wethered...

  Stephen Proctor

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  Winner of the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award
  'Finally – a book that truly captures the inspiring and uniquely gifted women from a largely forgotten golfing age. A wonderful read from start to finish' – Iona Stephen, Sky Sports presenter, commentator and host
  From the moment women began hosting championships of their own in 1893, one of golf's burning questions became whether any woman would ever approach the mythical ideal of playing perfect golf. It took three decades of striving – at a time when Suffragettes were stubbornly fighting for women's rights – before Joyce Wethered and Glenna Collett delivered an unequivocal answer to that question.
  From their first meeting at Troon in 1925, through a decade highlighted by their breathtaking match at St Andrews, the Englishwoman and the American brought out in one another golf so sublime that rare was the player, man or woman, who could perform as brilliantly.
  The rivalry between Wethered and Collett generated such widespread interest and respect that it paved the way for the birth of a women's professional tour. Matchless tells the story of these two incomparable golfers – women who personified the ambitions of their age.

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  The Fourth Book of Maccabees - A...

  Anonymous Anonymous

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  What gives humans the strength to endure suffering? How can reason and faith guide us through life’s most difficult challenges? 
  The Fourth Book of Maccabees is one of the most profound and thought-provoking works of ancient literature. Set during the brutal reign of Antiochus IV, this powerful text reflects on the courage of Jewish martyrs and offers a philosophical meditation on the triumph of reason over emotion, and faith over fear. 
  Now available in a clear, modern translation, this edition brings timeless insights into the human spirit, moral conviction, and the fusion of faith and philosophy. 
  What you'll discover inside:The Power of Reason Over Emotion – How rational thought can overcome fear, pain, and desireFaith as a Source of Strength – Unshakable belief in God as the foundation for courage and enduranceLessons on Courage and Martyrdom – Stories of heroic individuals who chose righteousness over compromiseA Fusion of Philosophy and Faith – Ancient Jewish thought interwoven with Greek philosophical ideals 
  Whether you seek spiritual inspiration, moral clarity, or intellectual depth, The Fourth Book of Maccabees offers a timeless guide to resilience and integrity. 
  Begin your journey today and discover the enduring wisdom of this remarkable text on faith, reason, and the strength of the human spirit.

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