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  The Mountain - My Time on Everest

  David Roberts, Ed Viesturs

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  In national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a true love letter to the world’s highest peak.In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks—trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring.The highest mountain on earth, Everest remains the ultimate goal for serious high-altitude climbers. Viesturs has gone on eleven expeditions to Everest, spending more than two years of his life on the mountain and reaching the summit seven times. No climber today is better poised to survey Everest’s various ascents—both personal and historic. Viesturs sheds light on the fate of Mallory and Irvine, whose 1924 disappearance just 800 feet from the summit remains one of mountaineering’s greatest mysteries, as well as the multiply tragic last days of Rob Hall and Scott Fischer in 1996, the stuff of which Into Thin Air was made.Informed by the experience of one who has truly been there, The Mountain affords a rare glimpse into that place on earth where Heraclitus’s maxim—“Character is destiny”—is proved time and again.

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  101 Amazing Facts about William...

  Jack Goldstein

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  Did you know that Shakespeare introduced thousands of words into the English language? Do you know what unusual item he left to his wife in his will? Have you heard of the conspiracy theory that suggests Shakespeare didn't write the plays we attribute to him today?
  
  In this fascinating audio-book, narrator Kent Harris talks us through all of this and more as we discover over 100 amazing facts about the Great Bard. Whether you've seen all his plays or you're just learning about England's greatest playwright, this is the perfect audio-book for you.
  
  ©2017 Jack Goldstein Books (P)2017 Jack Goldstein Books

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  Conor McGregor: Book Of Quotes...

  Quotes Station

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  CONOR MCGREGOR: BOOK OF QUOTES 
    
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  ABOUT CONOR MCGREGOR 
  Conor Anthony McGregor (born 14 July 1988) is an Irish professional mixed martial artist and boxer. He is a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight and lightweight champion. As of 25 January 2021, he is #6 in the UFC lightweight rankings, and as of March 23, 2021 he is #15 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings. 
    
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  "Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good." 
    
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  "At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable." 
    
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  "There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up." 
    
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  "If you have a clear picture in your head of something that's going to happen... then nothing can stop it." 
    
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  "Look out for those who look out for you. Loyalty is everything." 
    
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  "Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude." 
    
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  "Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in."

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  Wallflower Pen Pals - The...

  K.L. Estrada

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  This is a true story romance which consists of letters written between two young pen pals that started in the summer of 1955. This real-life story begins with a couple who wrote to each other before they even met. In the beginning, the exchange was friendly but very revealing of their vulnerabilities and innocence. However, these pen pals soon discovered the commonalities between them. 
  As this story unfolds, there is so much anticipation to learn about each other. Both are willing to help one another deal with everyday experiences. Finding a purpose for writing to each other helped them become more honest in sharing their innermost thoughts. 
  After much exchange and a more profound friendship ensued, there became a yearning to meet face-to-face. This writing affair was more than attraction and much greater than passion. It was beyond what these pen pals ever imagined. Yet, what they learned about each other propelled them to an exciting new future and outlook in life.

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  Solace - Life loss and the...

  Catherine Drea

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  Solace is that feeling of calm and comfort, that sense of peace that is all around us when we are open to finding it.
  Writer and photographer Catherine Drea explores the solace to be found in nature and creativity. She reflects on loss, the cycle of life and the healing power of family and community. She muses on the joy of finding a place to call home, the escape that travel brings and the exhilaration of plunging into our waters – all the while embracing the therapeutic power of observing the ordinary and the everyday.
  
  With the passing seasons, her camera captures fleeting moments in nature – the light and lie of the land with its precious wildlife: among them sentinel robins, elusive Irish hares and serene swans.
  
  Solace is quite simply a balm for the soul.
  
  'In this beautiful book Catherine Drea explores deeply emotive issues, calms the mind, soothes the soul, and focuses her sensitive lens on the wonders of the natural world.'
  
  Alice Taylor, author of To School through the Fields

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  All Things Are Too Small -...

  Becca Rothfeld

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  A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as decluttering, mindfulness, David Cronenberg, sadomasochism, and women who wait.  
  All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca Rothfeld’s plea for derangement: imbalance, obsession, gluttony, and ravishment in all domains of life, from literature to romance. In a healthy culture, Rothfeld argues, economic security allows for wild aesthetic experimentation and excess, yet in our contemporary world, we’ve got it flipped. The gap between rich and poor yawns hideously wide, while we compensate with misguided attempts to effect equality in love and art, where it does not belong.  
  Rothfeld shows how our culture’s embrace of minimalism has left us spiritually impoverished: how decluttering has reduced our living spaces to vacant non-places; how the mindfulness trend has emptied our minds of the musings, thoughts, and obsessions that make us who we are; how the regularization of sex has drained it of unpredictability and therefore true eroticism; and how our craze for balance has yielded fictions with protagonists who aspire, stylistically and substantively, to excise their appetites.  
  With uncompromising intellect, exuberance, and sly humor, Rothfeld insists that in culture, imbalance functions as a catapult, transforming our stagnant beliefs and identities. For culture to change, she says, it must bulge and binge.

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