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  Strange History Life's Mysteries...

  J. Dallas Brooks

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  A slip and fall changed the course of 20th century history and broadcasting. 
  One man's dislike of cats contributed to the deaths of millions of people. 
  A World War II pilot survives 3 plane crashes before switching gears and changing the world of science fiction forever. 
  A bullet fired in the Civil War nearly wiped yours truly from existence.  
  Told in the spirit of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story, this series of short and fantastic historical stories will intrigue and delight readers who enjoy a fresh take on history. All of these stories come with a fun twist at the end, and some readers will enjoy guessing who or what each story is about as they follow along with each new tale. This is a short, but engaging listen about an hour long.

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  Reconciling - A Lifelong...

  Scott Steedman, Larry Grant

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  “Larry Grant’s life is a model of what it means to rise above hardship, transcend preconceived notions, and live life in a good way. I’ve had the honour of meeting him, but this book makes me feel as if I know him. And that is a profound gift.” — Shelagh Rogers, Honorary Witness, Truth and Reconciliation Commission; broadcast journalist, CBC Radio
  		 
  A personal and historical story of identity, place, and belonging from a Musqueam-Chinese Elder caught between cultures
  		 
  It’s taken most of Larry Grant’s long life for his extraordinary heritage to be appreciated. He was born in a hop field outside Vancouver in 1936, the son of a Musqueam cultural leader and an immigrant from a village in Guangdong, China. In 1940, when the Indian agent discovered that their mother had married a non-status man, Larry and his two siblings were stripped of their status. With one stroke of the pen, they were disenfranchised—no longer recognized as Indigenous.
  		 
  Reconciling is a series of conversations between Larry and writer Scott Steedman as they visit pivotal geographical places together, including the Musqueam reserve, Chinatown, the site of the Mission residential school, the Vancouver docks and the University of British Columbia. Larry tells the story of his life, including his thoughts on reconciliation and the path forward for First Nations and Canada. His life echoes the barely known story of Vancouver and spans key events of the last two centuries, including Chinese immigration and the Head Tax, the ravages of residential school and now Indigenous revival and the accompanying change in worldview. 
  		 
  When Larry talks about reconciliation, he uses the verb reconciling, an ongoing, unfinished process we’re all going through, Indigenous and settler, immigrant and Canadian-born. “I have been reconciling my whole life, with my inner self,” he explains. “To not belong was forced upon me by the colonial society that surrounded me. But reconciling with myself is part of all that.”

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  Cerebral Eruption - An...

  Victor Merkel, Fran Feavel Merkel

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  Fran Feavel Merkel was a Wisconsin politician who suffered a massive brain aneurysm in 2006 and survived. 
  Consider this autobiography as a guide to negotiating the overwhelming maze of medical providers and avoiding their pitfalls. 
  If you feel an excruciating headache, dizziness, or blurred vision, to name a few, you could be having a brain aneurysm. 
  Understanding my struggles could make the difference between a quick recovery or death. 
  You'll discover an endless journey to hospitals, clinics, emergency rooms, doctors, nurses, therapists, psychologists, and more. 
  Although I found most of my experiences with medical providers positive, in my opinion, a few exhibited incompetence, hostility, and deception. 
  Learn how I handled those negative individuals.

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  Faith Hope and Carnage

  Nick Cave, Seán O'Hagan

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  This program is read by the authors. Featuring sixteen musical codas and elements from the Carnage, Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen albums, it also includes an exclusive, additional 12-minute conversation between Cave and O’Hagan about the production of the recording.Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life.Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with Seán O’Hagan, it is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity.The book examines questions of faith, art, music, freedom, grief, and love. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic, and his dramatic transformation in recent years.From a place of considered reflection, Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true creative visionary.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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  Up The Down Escalator - Medicine...

  Lisa Doggett

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  A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin. 
   
   
   
  Facing the prospect of a career-ending disability as she adjusts to life with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett is forced to deal with a new level of uncertainty and vulnerability, and the everyday fear that something new will go wrong. Taking off her white coat—becoming a patient herself—she confronts unimaginable fears, copes with her limitations, and sidesteps her skepticism of alternative medicine to seek help from unlikely sources. 
   
   
   
  MS pushes Doggett—a perfectionist at heart—to embrace self-compassion. As a patient, she learns to advocate for herself to ensure on-time medication deliveries and satisfactory treatment plans; to navigate chronic dizziness, relapses, and parenting frustrations; and to push her physical limits as a runner to go farther than ever before. 
   
   
   
  This hopeful and uplifting book will encourage those living with chronic disease, and those supporting them, to power forward with courage and grace.

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  Before The Night Comes

  Matt Roper

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  “These girls, they know the night is coming for them, always chasing them, always there right behind them. We have to do something now. We have to get to them first...” 
   
  After ten years as a national newspaper journalist, Matt had an experience in Brazil which changed his life. 
   
  A chance encounter with an 11-year-old girl selling her body on the side of a remote motorway led him into a dark world of exploitation and trafficking few knew existed. 
   
  Fast-paced and full of drama, corruption, tragedy, set-backs and victories, this is the gripping story of a race against time - to save hundreds of young victims and expose a hidden, unreported scandal. 
   
  "An incredible story filled with moments of hope and heartbreak, Matt has lifted the veil on the shocking horrors of Brazil’s 'exploitation highway’." Ben Fogle

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