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  Asylum - Inside Grangegorman

  Brendan Kelly

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  In 1814, the Richmond Lunatic Asylum at Grangegorman in Dublin
  started an extraordinary programme of asylum building across Ireland,
  aimed at alleviating the suffering of people with mental illness who were
  homeless, in prison, or confined in appalling circumstances.
  By the mid-twentieth century, Ireland had proportionately more people in
  'mental hospitals' than any other country in the world. On a given night,
  the number of people in Ireland's psychiatric hospitals was more than
  double those in all our other institutions put together: prisons, laundries,
  mother and baby homes, industrial schools, orphanages.
  What was the life of a patient in an asylum really like?

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  Crosses of Iron - The Tragic...

  Nick Pappas, Richard Melzer

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  In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners. Today, Dawson is a deserted ghost town. All that remains is a sea of white iron crosses memorializing the nearly four hundred miners killed in the two explosions—a death toll unmatched by mine disasters in any other town in America. 
   
   
   
  Now, to mark the centennial of the second disaster, veteran journalist Nick Pappas tells the tragic story of what was once New Mexico's largest and most modern company town and of how the strong, determined residents of the community coped with two heartbreaking catastrophes.

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  The Dying Art of Menstruation -...

  Sarah Killingsworth

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  In a world deluged with careful, pandering voices, Killingsworth's book stands apart as anything but safe. The author leaves no sacred stone unturned and asks the reader to do the hardest thing: to question our selves. This book dares us to reconsider EVERYTHING we've ever known. The author masterfully navigates a path in our minds leading us to profound, personal power we have had with us all along.

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  The Identity Reset - A Guide to...

  Ashley Olivia Nelson

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  No one prepares you for losing the version of yourself that loss, trauma, and major life changes took. This book helps you discover who you are when life rewrites your identity. 
   
  The Identity Reset: A Guide to Discovering Yourself After Loss, Change, and Survival is a lifeline for those navigating the difficult in-between—when your past self no longer fits, and the future feels uncertain and unrecognizable. 
   
  For some, identity loss begins with what was taken. For others, it starts with what was never given: stability, affirmation, belonging, or the safety that trauma disrupted. And when the people, roles, or routines that shaped your life have died, it changes you. Author Ashley Olivia Nelson, a loss and trauma survivor, shows that discovering who you are isn't about "moving on"—it's about moving differently, without shame, pressure, or the need to perform. 
   
  This book helps you name what's missing, understand how you've changed, and gently mend who you are—without minimizing what happened to you. As an identity and grief specialist, Ashley Olivia Nelson offers: finding the words for the invisible losses that shaped you; granting yourself permission to grieve and explore who you are now; steps to ease overwhelm and build emotional capacity; and choosing relationships that truly accept you. 
   
  You'll walk away with more than validation—you'll leave with direction. Whether you're grieving who you were or who you never got to be, The Identity Reset offers soul-tending reflection and clear, heartfelt insight.

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  Antelope The: The History of the...

  Charles River Editors

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  By the early 19th century, several European nations had banned slavery, but while the United States had banned the international slave trade, slavery was still legal in the country itself. As a result, there was still a strong financial motive for merchants and slave traders to attempt to bring slaves to the Western hemisphere, and a lot of profits to be gained from successfully sneaking slaves into the American South and the Caribbean by way of locations like Havana, Cuba.  
  	At the same time, the cruelties of the slave trade often led to desperate attempts by slaves or would-be slaves to avoid the horrific fate that they were either experiencing or about to face. In 1831, Nat Turner’s revolt shocked the South and scared plantation owners across the country, while also bringing the issue of slavery to the forefront of the national debate, and the mutiny on the Amistad is still taught in American schools today.  
  	Less than 20 years before the mutiny on the Amistad, another Spanish slave ship was at the center of a dramatic legal case in the United States, this time involving privateers. The Antelope was a slave ship that plied the waters in the Western hemisphere after the international slave trade had been banned, making it a potential prize not just for crews looking to trade illicit human cargo, but also for those who hunted slave ships themselves. The name of the ship that captured the Antelope changed at least four times in less than two years, (as well as the flag under which it flew), and the Antelope’s name also changed after pirates captured it. Hundreds of Africans destined for a lifetime of slavery were on the ship when it was captured. They had been taken from their families and villages in Africa, then marched overland by cannibalistic warlords. After being sold on the beach, they were forced into the hold of a ship and endured rough seas, pirates, and shipwreck. Dozens died on the voyage, and when their ship was captured, nobody knew what to do with them. 

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  Cuba's Baseball Defectors - The...

  Peter Costa Bjarkman

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  “Takes an inside look into the wave of player departures that has rocked the game both in Cuba and the U.S., while providing historical perspective.” —USA Today   The stellar play and fascinating backstories of exiled Cuban sluggers and hurlers has become part of Major League Baseball history. On-field exploits by colorful Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, AL rookie-of-the-year José Abreu, home run derby champion Yoenis Céspedes, radar-gun busting Cincinnati fast-baller Aroldis Chapman, and a handful of others have been further enhanced by feel-good tales of desperate Cuban superstars risking their lives to escape Fidel Castro’s communist realm and chase an American Dream of financial and athletic success. But a truly ugly underbelly to this story has also slowly emerged—one that involves human smuggling operations financed by Miami crime syndicates, operated by Mexican drug cartels, and conveniently ignored by ball clubs endlessly searching for fresh waves of international talent.   Given rare access to Cuba and its ballplayers, Peter C. Bjarkman has spent over twenty years traveling to all corners of the island getting to know the top Cuban stars and witnessing their struggles and triumphs. In this book, Bjarkman places events in the context of Cuban baseball history and tradition before delving into the stories of the major Cuban stars who have left the island. He reveals their personal histories, explains the events that led them to defect from their homeland, and details their harrowing journeys to US shores. Players whose big-league dreams failed are also discussed, as are Cuba’s efforts to stem the defection tide through working agreements with the Japanese and Mexican leagues. Cuba’s Baseball Defectors will fascinate baseball fans, those interested in the history of US-Cuba relations, and those wanting to learn more about the unsavory story of human trafficking in the name of baseball glory.   “A revelation . . . an original social history for sports enthusiasts and readers interested in past and future Cuba–U.S. ties.” —Library Journal Includes photos

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