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  Roughing It

  Mark Twain

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  "Roughing It" by Mark Twain is a lively, humorous, and vividly detailed account of the author's adventures in the American West during the mid-19th century. Blending memoir, travel writing, and tall-tale storytelling, Twain chronicles his experiences as a young man seeking fortune and purpose amid the raw energy of frontier life.
  
  Beginning with Twain's journey by stagecoach from Missouri to Nevada, the book captures the excitement, danger, and absurdity of westward expansion. Twain recounts encounters with colorful characters, prospectors, outlaws, journalists, and dreamers, bringing to life the mining camps, desert landscapes, and boomtowns of Nevada and California. His misadventures in silver mining, brief military service, and early days as a newspaper writer form the heart of the narrative.
  
  Beyond the American West, Roughing It also follows Twain to Hawaii (then the Sandwich Islands), where his keen observations and playful humor illuminate island life, local customs, and natural wonders. Throughout the book, Twain's storytelling blends exaggeration with truth, creating a uniquely entertaining portrait of frontier America.
  
  While often laugh-out-loud funny, Roughing It also offers valuable insights into the spirit of ambition, risk, and reinvention that defined the era. Twain captures the optimism and chaos of a rapidly expanding nation, while subtly critiquing greed, folly, and the myth of easy success.
  
  Energetic, observant, and irresistibly entertaining, Roughing It stands as one of Mark Twain's most beloved nonfiction works. It is an essential read for fans of classic American literature, travel memoirs, and stories of adventure on the wild frontier.

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  Chain of Fools - Prison Bids

  Briana Cole, N'Tyse

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  “I couldn’t see my man, but I knew he would be proud of me for what I was about to do. And for that, it was worth it.”—"Covenant" by Briana Cole 
   
  From a single mother who gets lured into her pastor’s twisted den of lies, to a deadly revenge plot gone wrong, and an illicit affair that leaves a bloody trail of evidence, author and filmmaker N’Tyse presents Chain of Fools: Prison Bids, her  
  most gripping, collaborative work thus far—featuring crime of passion tales served by bestselling authors Briana Cole, Shakir Rashaan, Brandie Davis, Erick S. Gray, and India Williams.

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  Florida Spectacular -...

  Cathy Salustri

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  If when you think "Florida" you don't think "spectacular," Cathy Salustri is determined to change your mind. Explaining why the state is more than the "Florida Man" stories and the politics that so often make national news, and looking beyond the crowded beaches and theme parks, Salustri celebrates what makes the state worth a deeper understanding in this lively trip through its natural beauty and fascinating history. 
   
   
   
  Florida Spectacular lifts the curtain on multiple facets, including the legacy of Zora Neale Hurston and the Black community at Eatonville; the bravery of Emateloye Estenletkvte, a Seminole woman who escaped from captivity back to her homeland; the two "frenemy" Henrys, Flagler and Plant, and their projects in transportation and tourism; the three "Marjories," the influential environmentalists and writers; and people working to solve issues facing the state today, such as those who have used Florida's hurricanes to make storm forecasting better for the whole world. 
   
   
   
  Along the way, Salustri brings to light lesser-known moments from Florida's history that help illuminate the state's significance in American and world history. Salustri tours listeners through the hidden-in-plain-sight Florida, the overlooked treasures, the cultural complexities, the environmental challenges and successes.

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  Failing My Way to Success -...

  Phillip Cantrell

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  Most business books promise shortcuts to success. This one delivers something better: a battle-tested blueprint for scaling, selling, and surviving as an entrepreneur & business leader. 
  In Failing My Way to Success, Phillip Cantrell takes you inside four decades of founding and leading various businesses, some of which grew to hundreds of millions in annual revenue. Along the way, he shares hard-won lessons from failure, the mindset of resilience, and the strategic frameworks that turn mistakes into momentum. Inside you’ll discover: 
  •	How an average student became a successful entrepreneur, founding or controlling 10 separate businesses. Many built from scratch. 
  •	A mergers & acquisitions roadmap: from preparing clean P&Ls and balance sheets for due diligence, to negotiating letter of intent (LOI) terms, to navigating earn-out periods and post-sale integration. 
  •	Real-world real estate business strategies and scaling a brokerage with discipline. 
  •	Why knowing your cash position daily and running on a “zero accounts receivables” model can protect your business from collapse. 
  •	The often-overlooked realities of life after selling a business—how founders stay engaged during earn-outs, protect their legacy, and rediscover purpose once the deal is done. 
  •	The four cornerstones of sustainable leadership: delegation, observation, working smart, and compassion. 
  This is not theory. It’s the inside story of the decisions, negotiations, and systems that separate businesses that burn out from those that endure—and thrive. 
  Whether you’re scaling a company, preparing to sell one you've built, or simply learning how to turn setbacks into stepping stones, Failing My Way to Success gives you a clear-eyed, practical path forward.

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  Serial Killers At The Movies

  Christopher Berry-Dee

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  The depraved crimes of both real and imagined serial killers and mass murderers have long transfixed us in newspapers and books, but perhaps nowhere more so than on the big screen. Films such as Silence of the Lambs, Psycho and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer have not only reached huge audiences but also allowed us into the minds of society’s most disturbed individuals.  Bestselling author, Christopher Berry-Dee, talks to the serial killers whose wicked stories have most thrilled and fascinated us at the movies and, through far-ranging and disturbing interviews, he tells the stories of the mass murderers who provided the inspiration for some of cinema’s most shocking films. Serial Killers at the Movies takes the reader on an uncomfortable and truly dark journey into a lurid world of murder and deviancy.

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  Geronimo's Story of His Life

  Geronimo

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  Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Geronimo’s story found audience and publication through the efforts of S. M. Barrett--Lawton, Oklahoma, Superintendent of Education, who wrote in his preface that “the initial idea of the compilation of this work was . . . to extend to Geronimo as a prisoner of war the courtesy due any captive, i.e. the right to state the causes which impelled him in his opposition to our civilization and laws.” Barrett, with the assistance of Asa Deklugie, son of Nedni chief Whoa as Apache translator, wrote down the story as Geronimo told it --beginning with an Apache creation myth. Geronimo recounted bloody battles with Mexican troopers, against whom he had vowed vengeance in 1858 after they murdered his mother, his wife, and his three small children. He told of treaties made between Apaches and the U.S. Army--and treaties broken. There were periods of confinement on the reservations, and escapes. And there were his final days on the run, when the U.S. Army put 5000 men in the field against his small band of 39 Apache.Geronimo had been a prisoner of war for 19 years when he told his story. Born in 1829, he was by then an old man, no longer a warrior, and he had come to an accommodation with many things “white,” including an appreciation of money. U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs personnel took him to the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, where he roped cows in the “wild west show” and signed his name for “ten, fifteen, or twenty five cents.” By then he was perhaps the United States’ most “famous” Indian. In 1905 he was even invited to ride horseback in President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade (though still a prisoner of war!).Geronimo dedicated his book to Roosevelt with the plea that he and his people be allowed to return to their ancestral land in Arizona. “It is my land, my home, my father’s land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace.” Geronimo died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1909, still a prisoner of war. (Introduction by Sue Anderson)

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