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  Brief Flashings in the...

  Katie Arnold

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  After flipping her raft days away from help on a trip down the remote Salmon River, Katie Arnold's shattered leg tests both her spirit and her marriage for years to come. It also reignites her meditation practice and motivates her to dive into Zen in search of healing. Before the accident, Katie was an elite ultrarunner with a simmering but adequate marriage who avoided being indoors whenever possible. But who is she afterwards? 
   
   
   
  In the midst of hardship, Katie turns for support to the Zen practice she had long dabbled in. Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World is a Zen study wrapped in a memoir that tells the story of a search for stillness by a woman born for wildness. Spanning roughly two years, from shortly before the accident through the long, uncertain healing of both leg and marriage, it is a personal narrative of that tumultuous time nested inside meditations on Zen. 
   
   
   
  As the late Japanese master Shunryu Suzuki wrote, "Sometimes a flashing will come through the dark sky." These brief flashings are enlightenment—moments when we suddenly feel as if we're part of everything, and everything's part of us. This book is about how to experience the flashings when they come, and about what they mean for how we live our lives.

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  The Daring Heart of David...

  Jay Milbrandt

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  The captivating, untold story of the great explorer, David Livingstone: his abiding faith and his heroic efforts to end the African slave trade 
  Saint? Missionary? Scientist? Explorer? 
  The titles given to David Livingstone since his death are varied enough to seem dubious—and with good reason. In view of the confessions in his own journals, saint is out of the question. Even missionary is tenuous, considering he made only one convert. And despite his fame as a scientist and explorer, Livingstone left his most indelible mark on Africa in an arena few have previously examined: slavery. 
  His impact on abolishing what he called “this awful slave-trade” has been shockingly overlooked as the centerpiece of his African mission. 
  Until now. 
  The Daring Heart of David Livingstone tells his story from the beginning of his time in Africa to the publicity stunt that saved millions after his death.

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  Golden Lily - 10 Years On -...

  Lijia Xu

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  Golden Lily is the fascinating autobiography from Asia's first ever dinghy sailing gold medallist. It tells of her learning to sail and becoming a full-time athlete at just 10 years old. At that age Lijia Xu was taken away from her parents and enrolled in the gruelling Chinese training regime, a programme meticulously prescribed across all sporting disciplines to catapult the nation's talented youngsters to international champions. It is a rare insight into a shocking world of relentless physical training and unquestioning mental compliance. Lijia's honest and heart-felt account takes you on her journey from physical disabilities and debilitating injuries to learning to think for herself, eventually going on to achieve her dream of becoming an Olympic gold medallist. Now, ten years since its first publication, Lily has updated the story. She tells of her third and final Olympic campaign at Rio 2016 and then training to be a sports journalist and covering Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 as a reporter. Lijia opens up about her secret relationship with her English coach and their subsequent marriage, as well as talking about her post-Olympic sailing including IMOCA 60s, M32s, J80s and Waszps. This is an inspirational story of a young woman's will to succeed despite all that her background threw at her.

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  Listen with Father - How I...

  Caroline Sanderson

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  At four years old, Caroline Sanderson fell in love with the music of Mozart after listening to it with her father. At eight, she fell even harder for the songs of David Bowie. Her dad made many gentle attempts to persuade her back to his world of classical music, but it wasn't until after he died that she returned to it, in memory of him.
  In a beguiling blend of memoir and biography, we follow Sanderson as she set out to listen, with great care and attention, to the music her dad loved, to work out why he so appreciated it and whether she could too.
  From hearing Mozart recitals in Salzburg to visiting Sibelius' house near Helsinki and playing Robert Schumann at home on the piano, this is a beautifully touching and absorbing story of a beloved father, told through the classical music he cherished.

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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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  Oz: The Complete Collection

  L. Frank Baum

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  Here you will find the complete OZ Collection:1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Starts at Chapter 1 2. The Marvelous Land of Oz Starts at Chapter 253. Ozma of Oz Starts at Chapter 494. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Starts at Chapter 705. The Road to Oz Starts at Chapter 906. The Emerald City of Oz Starts at Chapter 1147. The Patchwork Girl of Oz Starts at Chapter 1448. Tik-Tok of Oz Starts at Chapter 1729. The Scarecrow of Oz Starts at Chapter 19710. Rinkitink in Oz Starts at Chapter 22111. The Lost Princess of Oz Starts at Chapter 24512. The Tin Woodman of Oz Starts at Chapter 27113. The Magic of Oz Starts at Chapter 29514. Glinda of Oz Starts at Chapter 318

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