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  Beyond the Mask - How My Tragedy...

  Brian P. Walsh

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  Minutes before Brian Walsh, then just a teenager, heard his beeper go off, calling him to help put out another fire, he was on top of the world. An hour later, after a freak flashover and confusion that sent the junior firefighter into the inferno against regulations, Brian had suffered such profound burns to his face that he was unidentifiable to his fellow firefighters.Nearly everyone expected him to die that night. He did not.Nearly everyone expected him to die in the burn unit where, over the next month, every other patient died.Nearly everyone, including family and friends, expected Brian to choose a professional life that would keep him from showing his face, and the personal life of a hermit. He did not.Decades later, Brian is an extraordinarily successful and renowned financial planner, family man, community fixture, philanthropist, motivational speaker, and industry leader. In this stirring autobiography, he tells his incredible story, sharing the lessons that only tragedy could teach and how they helped him—and can help anyone—achieve greater success, inside and out.

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  Wright Brothers - History of...

  Kelly Mass

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  Orville and Wilbur Wright were 2 American air travel leaders who are commonly credited with developing, structure, and flying the world's first effective motor-driven plane. On December seventeenth, 1903, four miles (6 kilometers) south of Cat Hawk, North Carolina, they made the first regulated, supported flight of a powered, heavier-than-air airplane with the Wright Leaflet. The brothers were also the first to develop airplane controls, leading the way for fixed-wing powered flight. 
  The Wright brothers customized their flying device, the Wright Leaflet II, in the year 1904 to 1905, to perform longer-running and more aerodynamic flights, followed by the Wright Leaflet III, the first totally useful fixed-wing airplane. 
  Their preliminary patent in the USA didn't claim to be the creation of a flying device, but rather a system of aerodynamic control that customized the surface areas of a flying automobile. 
  Let’s see what else happened in their lives, and how they have impacted our civilization with their keen aviation skills.

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  Bind Torture Kill - The Inside...

  Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, L. Kelly,...

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  For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named "BTK"—for "bind them, torture them, kill them"—he slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades while bragging of his grisly exploits to the media. The nation was shocked when the fiend who was finally apprehended turned out to be Dennis Rader—a friendly neighbor . . . a devoted husband . . . a helpful Boy Scout dad . . . the respected president of his church. 
  Written by four award-winning crime reporters who covered the story for more than twenty years, Bind, Torture, Kill is the most intimate and complete account of the BTK nightmare told by the people who were there from the beginning. With newly released documents, evidence, and information—and with the full cooperation, for the very first time, of the Wichita Police Department's BTK Task Force—the authors have put all the pieces of the grisly puzzle into place, thanks to their unparalleled access to the families of the killer and his victims. 
  Contains mature themes.

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  Don't Sing at the Table - Life...

  Adriana Trigiani

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  This New York Times–bestselling memoir “combines family and American history, reflections on lives well-lived, and sound advice to excellent effect” (Publishers Weekly). 
   
  New York Times–bestselling author Adriana Trigiani shares a treasure trove of insight and guidance from her two grandmothers: time-tested, common sense advice on the most important aspects of a woman’s life, from childhood to the golden years. Seamlessly blending anecdote with life lesson, Don’t Sing at the Table tells the two vibrant women’s real-life stories—how they fell in love, nurtured their marriages, balanced raising children with being savvy businesswomen, and reinvented themselves with each new decade. For readers of Big Stone Gap, Very Valentine, Lucia, Lucia, and Rococo, this loving memoir is the Trigiani family recipe for chicken soup for the soul. 
   
  “Readers will find her strength and optimism helpful, and her legions of loyal fans will enjoy learning more about the women who influenced, inspired, and, according to Trigiani, made possible some of her best-selling fiction.” —Booklist 
   
  “Delightful, energetic. . . . Trigiani is a seemingly effortless storyteller.” —Boston Globe 
   
  “Well crafted work with sometime lyrical, sometimes flat-out-funny writing.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram 
   
  “Dazzling.” —USA Today

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  Summary: High Output Management...

  Executive Reads

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  Andrew S. Grove set the stage for much of the culture and success of Silicon Valley while he led Intel Corp. He thought about the process very deeply and honed it while leading Intel. Before there were Objectives and Key-Results (OKRs), there was Andy Grove’s management style that would later give birth to them.  
  In this summary quickly grasp the key ideas in High Output Management. In less than an hour learn the key points and decide if you should read the whole book or refresh your memory if you already have. Executive Reads values concise, accurate, and insightful information.  
  We want you to be able to choose the business books you spend the most time with and call upon them later when you need to use the ideas in your career.

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  How to Weep in Public - Feeble...

  Jacqueline Novak

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  In her hilarious memoir-meets-guide-to-life, comedian (and professional depressive) Jacqueline Novakreveals the hidden pleasures of depression, advises readers on how to make the most of a cat hair–covered life,and helps them summon the strength to shed that bathrobe and face the world.Exhausted? Run down? Filled with a vague sense of ennui, an occasional twinge of regret, or a hell of a lot ofmood stabilizers?Then this is the book for you.How to Weep in Public is both a tongue-in-cheek advice guide (from a person who has no business giving advice toanyone!) and one woman’s breathless journey to consistently put on pants, or at least get out of bed in the morning.Beginning with her earliest blue moments of infancy and hopscotching through her exploration of the world ofpharmaceuticals before bounding right back to her parents’ couch, Jacqueline Novak will introduce you to the ABCs(Adderall! Benzos! Catatonia!) of depression and reveal, funnily enough, that a lot can happen even when you’restanding still.Or, as it happens, lying down.Whether you’re coping with the occasional down day or thrive fully in Picasso’s Blue Period, How to Weep in Publicis the perfect place to regroup between those nagging Tony Robbins tapes and that exhausting amount of “leaning in.”So sit back, relax, and let Jacqueline Novak teach you how to carpe depressem with the rest of them.

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