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  Untold story of the panther party

  BLESS BUTLER

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  UNTOLD STORY OF THE PANTHER’S PARTY is the story of Lawrence Hayes & Cornelius Butler, and one of the best Black Panther stories ever told. A side you had never seen before. Black Panthers, apart from empowering the Black people, also dealt with the drug problem in the community. They took it on themselves to stop the drug trade. However, life is rarely that smooth. A few choices by Lawrence and Cornelius led to consequences. The book is a tell-all account of it all based on true events; nothing is left hidden. This is American history, the one you will never read anywhere else. The history that needs to be told.

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  COVIDOLOGY - Sharing Life...

  Paul Iarrobino, Jamison Green,...

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  Paul Iarrobino was compelled to create this new body of work based on his personal experiences navigating the pandemic. Witnessing and learning from others fueled the energy around creating a collection of stories and poems to give meaning to changed lives in a topsy-turvy world. 
  Fifteen literary gems are inside for you to explore how COVID has affected people. How similar have your experiences been? Is there an end to this? Will we be better off? Knowledge of others’ experiences with COVID is one step in understanding the answers. 
  These stories and poems are meant to be read and shared.

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  Stim - An Autistic Anthology

  Lizzie Huxley-Jones

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   Around one in one hundred people in the UK are autistic, yet there remains a fundamental misunderstanding of what autism is. It is rare that autistic people get to share their own experiences, show how creative and talented and passionate they are, and how different they are from media stereotypes. 
   This insightful and eye-opening collection of essays, fiction and visual art showcases the immense talents of some of the UK's most exciting writers and artists  − who just happen to be on the spectrum. Here they reclaim the power to speak for themselves and redefine what it means to be autistic.
   Stim invites the reader into the lives, experiences and minds of the eighteen contributors, and asks them to recognise the hurdles of being autistic in a non-autistic world and to uncover the empathy and understanding necessary to continue to champion brilliant yet unheard voices. 

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  True Stories from an Unreliable...

  Anónimo

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  A fiercely intelligent, hilarious, and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories from Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award–winning actress and director Christine Lahti. 
  For decades, actress and director Christine Lahti has captivated the hearts and minds of her audience through iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God of Carnage, and The Blacklist. Now, in True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness, this acclaimed performer channels her creativity inward to share her own story for the first time on the page. 
  In this poignant essay collection, Lahti focuses on three major periods of her life: her childhood, her early journey as an actress and activist, and the realities of her life as a middle-aged woman in Hollywood today. Lahti’s comical and self-deprecating voice shines through in stories such as ""Kidnapped"" and ""Shit Happens,"" and she takes a boldly honest look at the painful fissures in her family in pieces such as ""Mama Mia"" and ""Running on Empty."" Taken together, the collection illuminates watershed moments in Lahti’s life, revealing her struggle to maintain integrity, fight her need for perfection, and remain true to her feminist inclinations. 
  Lahti’s wisdom and candid insights are reminiscent of Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck and Joan Rivers’s I Hate Everyone—and yet her experiences are not exclusive to one generation. The soul of her writing can be seen as a spiritual mother to feminist actresses and comedic voices whose works are inspiring today’s young women, including Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham, Amy Poehler, Caitlin Moran, and Jenny Lawson. Her stories reveal a stumbling journey toward agency and empowerment as a woman—a journey that’s still very much a work in progress. 
  True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness is about the power of storytelling to affirm and reframe the bedrock of who we are, revealing that we’re all unreliable eyewitnesses when it comes to our deeply personal memories. Told in a wildly fresh, unique voice, and with the unshakable ability to laugh at herself time and again, this is Christine Lahti’s best performance yet.

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  What Lies Beneath - My Life as a...

  Peter Faulding

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  'From cold cases and serial killers to the death of a spy, Peter's true life story is as gripping as the finest thriller' - Peter James, author of Picture You DeadDiscover the truth beyond the police tape in What Lies Beneath, the arresting memoir of murder, investigation and justice from Peter Faulding, a world-leading forensic search expert.Recovering bodies, finding discarded remains, identifying unmarked graves and saving people from locations and situations too dangerous for the normal emergency services - all in a day’s work for Peter Faulding.From removing protestors from inside dangerous tunnels to the scenes of some of the UK’s most notorious crimes, he describes how he has developed into a highly regarded and highly skilled search specialist, whose job is to assist investigators and police as they search crime scenes and bring serial killers to justice.Peter gives new details on some of the country’s most harrowing murder cases – including that of serial killer Peter Tobin, the Nicola Payne case and the Helen McCourt murder; sheds new light on mysterious deaths, including MI6 worker Gareth Williams; and details the incredible lengths he goes to when helping investigators.Get ready to join Britain’s most extraordinary forensic search expert on his journey through deadly booby-trapped tunnel systems and into dark waters that hold horrific secrets, then onwards through uninviting crime scenes and into the minds of killers.

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  The Yage Letters

  William S. Burroughs

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  This is an independent summary & analysis of The Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg. It is not the original book. All trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners. For the full experience, please support the original work. 
  A raw jungle trip. A broken self. Two restless minds trying to write their way through visions, paranoia, and flashes of unexpected clarity. This powerful summary of The Yage Letters follows one seeker’s hunt for yagé in the Amazon and another’s later quest for meaning, turning chaotic experiences into brutally honest letters. 
  You’ll move through feverish river towns, unpredictable ceremonies, and surreal yagé visions where the self fractures, reforms, and collides with politics, guilt, and the dream of spiritual awakening. Then you’ll hear how distance, time, and reflection begin to turn all that intensity into perspective and integration.

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