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  Bring Me Back Home New Orleans -...

  Asia Briana Brown

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  “Dear New Orleans, I miss you. Crescent City, I love you.” On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated a number of homes and communities, scattering families as they sought refuge. Bring Me Back Home, New Orleans, is a Katrina survivor’s story of loss told through poetry, a reflection on home, and an ode to New Orleans.

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  Ayrshire - A Historical Guide

  Thorbjorn Campbell

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  Ayrshire has a rich and varied history. The region has been inhabited from earliest times, as the remains of duns, cairns and barrows show. In the medieval period it played a key role in the emergence and consolidation of a unified Scotland, and it was from one of Ayrshire's many powerful families that the Stewart line of kings emerged. From this period there remain many castles and tower-houses. In more recent times, great houses such as Culzean were rebuilt by the finest architects of their day, and there are a number of important sites dating from the Industrial Revolution.
  This book is both a narrative history and a guidebook featuring maps and plans as well as a detailed gazetteer enabling the visitor to locate and fully appreciate the many sites described.

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  Natural High - What Most People...

  Ernst-Marcus Thomas

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  California Sober 2.0 
  Stop Numbing Yourself with Alcohol and Start Expanding Your Mind with Science. 
  Are you tired of the hangovers, the brain fog, and the toxicity of alcohol? Are you curious about the "California Sober" lifestyle? But when you look at alternatives (cannabis edibles, magic mushrooms, kratom) you see chaos, horror stories, and bad trips. 
  This is not just a book. It is your flight manual. 
  Ernst-Marcus Thomas, a psychologist with a master's degree from the University of Munich, Germany, and former skeptic, takes you on a journey from the canals of Amsterdam to the frontiers of bio-hacking. He dismantles the myths of the "stoner" culture and replaces them with science for the modern psychonaut. 
  Inside, you will discover:The "California Sober" Blueprint: How to quit alcohol and replace it with a sustainable, euphoric, and non-toxic routine using nature's most powerful compounds.The Science of the "Edible High": Why eating cannabis creates a completely different, way more potent molecule than smoking, and how to use it to achieve a state of "Enhanced Lucidity".Psilocybin & Neurogenesis: Learn why experts call mushrooms the "Einstein Molecule." Discover how to use them to break addiction loops (the "Ski Slope" method) and regrow brain cells. 
  Most books on psychedelics are either too mystical or "scientifically dry". This guide combines the warm, personal storytelling of a mentor with the precise analysis of a German psychologist. 
  Important Medical and Legal Notice:  
  The information provided in this audiobook is for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. The "California Sober" lifestyle involves the use of substances that affect the central nervous system and may interact with pre-existing conditions or medications.

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  Major Trade-Offs - The...

  Corey Moss-Pech

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  An eye-opening look at the relationship between students’ majors and their entry-level jobs.Humanities majors are used to answering the question, “So, what are you going to do with that degree?” The common misconception is that students in humanities programs don’t learn any useful skills for the real world. In Major Trade-Offs, Corey Moss-Pech argues that not only do humanities majors learn real-world skills, but they actually use them when they graduate. Despite this discrepancy, graduates with so-called practical degrees like business and engineering are much more likely to find employment, and they earn higher salaries. Why do we belittle a liberal arts education despite the valuable skills that students acquire during their studies?
  
  Major Trade-Offs addresses this question by following students from different majors as they enter the workforce. Moss-Pech conducted nearly 200 interviews with roughly ninety students from four majors at a large Midwestern university: engineering, business, English, and communications. He follows these students through their senior years, chronicling their internships and the support their universities provide in helping them pursue their career paths. Graduates from practical majors entered the labor market successfully, typically through structured internship programs. However, many ended up in entry-level jobs that were largely clerical and didn’t necessarily require a degree to perform. Liberal arts majors rarely accessed structured internships and were largely left to carve out their own paths, but used their degree skills once they secured a job. This challenges the popular myths about the “marketability” of these different majors and offers a new vision for the future of higher education.
   
  
  Major Trade-Offs calls on colleges and universities to advocate for liberal arts majors, leveling the playing field for students as they plan for entry-level work.

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  How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

  Arnold Bennett

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  Written at the height of the early twentieth century, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day remains one of the clearest and most quietly demanding books ever written about time, attention, and personal responsibility. 
  Arnold Bennett begins with a simple, unavoidable truth: every person—regardless of status, wealth, or circumstance—is granted the same twenty-four hours each day. What distinguishes a fulfilled life from a diminished one, he argues, is not how we work, but how we use the hours that remain once work is done. 
  With calm authority and practical insight, Bennett challenges the habit of surrendering evenings to fatigue, distraction, or idle routine. He urges listeners to reclaim their non-working hours for thought, learning, reflection, and deliberate self-development—without abandoning ordinary life or demanding drastic change. His guidance is measured, humane, and realistic, rooted in the belief that steady mental discipline, practiced daily, transforms existence more reliably than bursts of ambition. 
  Narrated with clarity and restraint by LaVel Lane, this audiobook offers a timeless meditation on living deliberately within the constraints of modern life. Free of slogans or hype, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day speaks directly to anyone who has ever felt busy yet unfulfilled—and quietly insists that a richer life is already within reach.

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  Characters

  Theophrastus

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Thirty comic sketches of people you already know: the flatterer, the cheapskate, the man who will not stop talking. Aristotle's successor invented the character study, and it is still funny. Fresh from the Greek.

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