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  Following in the Footsteps of...

  Phil Carradice

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  The story of the first monarch of the House of Tudor, and his dramatic journey to the throne.   The story of Henry Tudor’s march to Bosworth and the throne of England began long before the fateful summer of 1485. Pembroke Castle, the gigantic fortress where he was born in 1457 and spent his childhood years, lay some twelve miles inland from the spot where Henry is believed to have landed in Milford Haven when he came to challenge Richard III in August 1485. Henry’s landing and progress to Bosworth Field were a gamble, but one that had to be taken if the House of Lancaster was to survive.   In Following in the Footsteps of Henry Tudor, we hear of the many fascinating stories from Henry’s march and the places he visited—a journey that took just over two weeks. It was a time of treachery and double dealing, but it culminated with the establishment of the Tudor dynasty, the end of the Wars of the Roses, and the beginnings of the modern world.

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  The Last Blue Mountain - The...

  Ralph Barker

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  'When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh.'
  The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue their friends, only to become stranded alongside them.
  The group's efforts to return to safety are increasingly desperate, hampered by injury, exhaustion and the loss of vital climbing gear. Against the odds, Jillott and Emery manage to climb out of the snow basin and head for camp, hoping to reach food, water and assistance in time to save themselves and their companions from an icy grave. But another cruel twist of fate awaits them.
  An acclaimed mountaineering classic in the same genre as Joe Simpson's Touching the Void, Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain is an epic tale of friendship and fortitude in the face of tragedy.

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  Summary of Chris Hadfield's An...

  Falcon Press

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  Summary of Chris Hadfield's An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth tells the Canadian astronaut’s life story and offers practical life advice based on this professional experience. Focusing on his training and his third and final mission to space, Hadfield demonstrates how the unusual way in which astronauts work is surprisingly applicable to everyday life…

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  Secrets of the Light - Lessons...

  Dannion Brinkley, Kathryn Brinkley

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  “A must-read for anyone on their spiritual path.”—James Van Praagh, author of Talking to HeavenIn Secrets of the Light, Dannion Brinkley, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Saved by the Light, offers an accessible spiritual guide for empowering your life based on his own experiences in the afterlife. A survivor of three near-death experiences, Brinkley presents us with profound “Lessons from Heaven”—the Seven Truths revealed to him in the afterlife—to help readers find their personal paths to happiness, enlightenment, health, and prosperity. Secrets of the Light belongs in every personal library beside Betty J. Eadie’s Embraced by the Light and Don Piper’s 90 Minutes in Heaven.

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  When It Gets Dark - An...

  Thomas DeBaggio

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  Adeptly navigating between elegy and celebration, fear and determination, confusion and clarity, DeBaggio delivers an exquisitely moving and inspiring book that will resonate with all those who have grappled with their own or their loved ones' memory loss and with death.With his first memoir, Losing My Mind, Thomas DeBaggio stunned readers by laying bare his faltering mind in a haunting and beautiful meditation on the centrality of memory to human life, and on his loss of it to early-onset Alzheimer's disease. In this second extraordinary narrative, he confronts the ultimate loss: that of life. And as only DeBaggio could, he treats death as something to honor, to marvel at, to learn from.Charting the progression of his disease with breathtaking honesty, DeBaggio deftly describes the frustration, grief, and terror of grappling with his deteriorating intellectual faculties. Even more affecting, the prose itself masterfully represents the mental vicissitudes of his disease—DeBaggio's fragments of memory, observation, and rumination surface and subside in the reader's experience much as they might in his own mind. His frank, lilting voice and abundant sense of wonder bind these fragments into a fluid and poetic portrait of life and loss.Over the course of the book, DeBaggio revisits many of the people, places, and events of his life, both in his memory and in fact. In a sense, he is saying goodbye, paying his respects to the world as it recedes from him—and it is a poignant irony that even as this happens, he is at the height of his remarkable descriptive powers. In his moments of clarity, his love for life's details only grows deeper and richer: the limestone creek where he has fished for years; his satisfying and lonely herb farming days; the goldfish pond his son designed and built in his backyard in honor of DeBaggio's passion for "any hole in the ground with some liquid in it"; the thirty years in his beloved home in Arlington, Virginia; his early career as a muckraker; the innumerable precious moments spent with his wife and son; his belated grief over his parents' deaths.

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  Summary of Laura Coleman’s The...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Laura Coleman’s The Puma Years 
    
  In The Puma Years (2021), Laura Coleman chronicles how a trip to the Bolivian Amazon with the intention of taking a short vacation turned into a life-changing experience of self-discovery, bonding with wild animals, connecting to nature, and pushing her own boundaries. 
  Wayra, a foster puma in Sanctuary Ambue Ari, became her life’s top priority, teaching her many lessons about herself and uncovering a litany of oft-overlooked issues such as deforestation, slash-and-burn farming, and the illegal pet trade.  
   

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