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  The Myth of the Caudillo - How...

  Davis Truman

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  Power was not enough for Francisco Franco — he needed a legend. 
  In The Myth of the Caudillo, Davis Truman unveils the untold story of how Spain’s dictator didn’t just win a civil war — he reinvented the past to secure his future. Through propaganda, censorship, and the rewriting of national memory, Franco transformed himself from a ruthless general into “El Caudillo,” the savior Spain supposedly needed. 
  Blending rigorous scholarship with gripping narrative, this groundbreaking work exposes how Franco’s regime weaponized history itself — turning defeat into destiny, and dictatorship into divine mandate. From the manipulation of textbooks to the orchestration of monuments and myths, The Myth of the Caudillo reveals the deliberate creation of a false Spain—one that still haunts the nation today. 
  Drawing on newly uncovered archives and testimonies suppressed for decades, Davis Truman dismantles the story Franco told the world—and the one Spain was forced to believe. 
  A masterful blend of history, politics, and psychology, The Myth of the Caudillo is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how power sustains itself — not just through fear, but through the stories we choose to remember.

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  Sex Drugs & Soul - Finding Grace...

  Kristin Birdwell

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  Unhealed wounds, a thirst for unavailable men, and years of seeking salvation in temporary homes found twenty-one-year-old Kristin on the doorstep of a decades-older sugar daddy. She thought her life was finally about to begin. 
  But dating Bradley was not the fairytale she expected. 
  When Kristin’s dangerous binge of sex, substances, and scandal landed her in a detective’s office, she didn’t suspect that the toughest questions would be the honest ones she had to start asking herself. 
  Sex, Drugs, & Soul is the true story of one woman’s healing quest to discover grace within the shadow side of her psyche and behaviors. Forced to come face-to-face with her tendencies toward people-pleasing and self-abandonment amidst grief and abuse, Kristin finally realized what she had truly been missing—herself.

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  The Autobiography of H Lan Thao Lam

  Lana Lin

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  Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction. 
   
  Situated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.In her 1933 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein invented a new literary form by narrating her own story from the perspective of her partner, blurring the lines between portrait and self–portrait. Almost a century later, experimental filmmaker and artist Lana Lin has resurrected Stein’s project to tell a different story of queer love, life, and artistic collaboration.At heart a candid chronicle of her partner Lan Thao’s life journey from Việt Nam during the war, and her own troubled history as a gender–queer Taiwanese American, Lin draws in subjects as varied as photography, cancer, tropical fruit, 9/11, and Eve Sedgwick’s eyeglasses, weaving an intimate landscape of living that is also a critical investigation of race and gender.

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  Hazel Climbs Mountains

  Christopher Vanier

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  How should a physically handicapped person view the world? For instance, a child with cerebral palsy may struggle to understand why others make fun of her. Why don't they listen to what she's trying to say? Why can't she walk like they do? Why is she barred from the same schools? And why can't she study and pass exams, even if she is unable to write? Don't they see that she has the same determination and intelligence as they do?
  
  Thankfully, some people do understand. Opportunities now exist to succeed in school, to find love, and to experience a fulfilling life, even as cerebral palsy presents its challenges. The world has grown more caring and accepting of the handicapped, though the elusive cure remains out of reach.
  
  But even with education and studies now possible, how can a physically handicapped person navigate the modern, competitive job market? And beyond employment, can an adult with a disability find a partner who accepts them fully? If they form a couple, what about children? Can a disabled parent raise a child successfully? Will the child accept their parent's condition?
  
  Over the seven decades of Hazel's life, the world has evolved significantly. What was once impossible for someone with cerebral palsy is now worth fighting for.

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  Standing in Gaps

  Seamus O'Rourke

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  'We hadn't a clue till we got the telly and then we wanted to be like dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We were always longing for something else, so we kept doing the same.'
  Standing in Gaps turns back time and transports the reader to a place where everything moved slowly – and in the Leitrim of the '60s, '70s and '80s, that means really slowly.
  In this memoir about rural Ireland, family, people and time, award-winning playwright Seamus O'Rourke finds diamond tipped needles in bales of really bad hay, turning the mundane into magic and providing much hilarity and mayhem for his many fans along the way.

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  Empire of Illusion- Gregor...

  Quentin Drummond Anderson

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  Empire of Illusion: Gregor MacGregor and the Country That Never Was 
  By Quentin Drummond Anderson 
  Gregor MacGregor didn’t just commit a fraud. 
  He created a country — and convinced people to believe in it. 
  In the speculative fever of early nineteenth-century London, MacGregor sold land, issued bonds, and built the illusion of a thriving nation in Central America. Investors bought in. Families risked everything and set sail for a promised future. 
  There was just one problem. 
  When they arrived, there was nothing there. 
  Soldier, social climber, and master of reinvention, MacGregor understood a dangerous truth: authority, convincingly performed, becomes reality in the minds of others. 
  What began as research into history’s greatest deceptions became something far more personal — the discovery that MacGregor was the author’s own distant ancestor. The story shifted from analysis to confrontation: how could such a man exist, and why did so many believe him? 
  Written with the pace of a thriller, Empire of Illusion explores not just how the con worked — but why it worked, and why it still feels familiar today. 
  In a world of distant opportunity, financial hype, and manufactured credibility, the line between truth and illusion is thinner than we think. 
  He didn’t just sell a lie. 
  He sold a country — and they bought it.

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