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  From Failure to Focus - My...

  Dr.Muddser Saleem

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  From Failure to Focus: My Journey Through Uncertainty" is a heartfelt and honest reflection on resilience, transformation, and self-discovery. Through moments of loss, confusion, and doubt, I share how life’s unexpected turns became lessons that shaped my purpose and focus. 
  This isn’t just a story about overcoming failure — it’s about finding clarity in chaos, rebuilding confidence, and learning to see uncertainty as a path to growth. Each chapter unfolds a personal experience, revealing how inner strength and faith can guide us through life’s toughest moments. 
  Whether you’re struggling with setbacks, searching for motivation, or trying to rediscover your direction, this journey will remind you that every fall carries the seed of a new beginning.

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  Interview with Serial Killer...

  Roger Kibbe

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  Roger Reece Kibbe (May 21, 1939 - February 28, 2021) was an American serial killer and rapist known as the "I-5 Strangler". Kibbe found all but one of his victims on freeways around Sacramento, California. In 1991, he was sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment for the death of Darcie Frackenpohl. On February 28, 2021, in Mule Creek State Prison, Kibbe was strangled to death by his cellmate.

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  "Are You a N****r or a Doctor?"...

  Otto E Stallworth Jr MD MBA

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  Heartwarming, numbing, entertaining, and informative. I think everyone can relate to his physical evolution from childhood to adolescents, which Dr. Stallworth describes with humor and self-reflection.  
  By the end of “AreYou”, the reader has a measure of the distance traveled over the years. He shares the good, the bad, and the ugly. 
  You can learn from it, and once you begin reading, it is hard to put down. 
  This is Dr. Stallworth’s first book since retiring in 2017, after 45 years of medical practice as an anesthesiologist in Los Angeles, and he has pursued his passion for writing since 2017. 

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  Liliecrona's Home

  Selma Lagerlöf

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  Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in the same surroundings in the district of Värmland which Lagerlöf knew so well and used in many of her books.At the bottom of the dried out Svartsjö lake (Black Lake) there lies the Lövdala Parsonage with its stables and outhouses. There resides the goodhearted, widowed, Pastor Lyselius and his beautiful daughter. Here one day, arrives his new wife, who turns out to be a wicked stepmother. She tempts with her cooking and other allurements, but soon shows her real self. She torments her servants and especially the parson's daughter, mamsell Maia Lisa. We follow mamsell Maia Lisa through torments and sufferings where she gets ever new and harder burdens to carry on her weak shoulders. But by her side in all weathers stands the cleareyed Little Maid, never afraid to say what she thinks or to defend justice. It is hard times when the stepmother is allowed to rule at Lövdala. Even the Parson abandons his nice personality and becomes a marionette who turns against those who he most loves. But changes will come in the end. (Summary by Lars Rolander adapted from Wikipedia-Sweden)

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  Tolkien and the Great War: The...

  John Garth

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  A new biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Lord of The Rings. 
  “To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in 1939 … by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.” 
  So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The Lord of the Rings as a reaction to the Second World War. Tolkien and the Great War tells for the first time the full story of how he embarked on the creation of Middle-earth in his youth as the world around him was plunged into catastrophe. This biography reveals the horror and heroism that he experienced as a signals officer in the Battle of the Somme and introduces the circle of friends who spurred his mythology to life. It shows how, after two of these brilliant young men were killed, Tolkien pursued the dream they had all shared by launching his epic of good and evil. 
  John Garth argues that the foundation of tragic experience in the First World War is the key to Middle-earth’s enduring power. Tolkien used his mythic imagination not to escape from reality but to reflect and transform the cataclysm of his generation. While his contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day. 
  This is the first substantially new biography of Tolkien since 1977, meticulously researched and distilled from his personal wartime papers and a multitude of other sources. 
  This award-winning biography not only delves into the history of the 20th century, but also paints a vivid picture of the figures that shaped it. It's a top pick for those interested in Europe's past, particularly Britain's role in it. 
  For fans of Christopher A. Snyder (Gatsby's Oxford), Dominic Sandbrook (The Rest is History), and Christopher Clark (Kaiser Wilhelm II).

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  The Irish Goodbye - Micro-Memoirs

  Beth Ann Fennelly

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  A new, genre-defying volume that explores family, marriage, motherhood, place, and coming of age with singular wit and emotional clarity. 
    
  What can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, whether moving or perplexing or troubling or gladdening, in the process dignifying the diminutive through the act of attention. Fennelly explores her roles as a friend, wife, mother, and daughter, documenting a brush with an old flame or the devastating death of her sister in crystalline, precise sentences. 
    
  The longer essays concern Fennelly’s relationships—with a beloved mother-in-law, a decades-long friendship between five former college roommates, an artist who paints a series of nude portraits in Fennelly’s town, for which she poses. Interspersed between these longer memoirs are sections of flash nonfiction, a form Fennelly innovated in the genre-defying Heating & Cooling. With dazzling verve and wit, they capture the interstitial interactions—encounters with strangers, quirky observations, unexpected flights of fancy—that make up a richly lived life. 
    
  The Irish Goodbye offers a rare pleasure: intimacy. With emotional clarity and nimble prose, Fennelly invites readers to share her affirming worldview—one in which even our smallest interactions are rife with possibility. 
    
  "[Fennelly] transforms the mundane into the metaphysical under the heat of her gaze. With a poet’s knack for concision and a novelist’s deep well of empathy, Fennelly makes everyday moments worthy of close reading"—Publishers Weekly 
    
  This enhanced edition includes an audio-exclusive bonus essay, "Of Fossils and Friendship."

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