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  Just A Dream - Love in Pursuit

  B.A. Bradley

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  📖 Author: B.A. Bradley 
  🎙️ Narrator: Brad Derry 
  📚 Publisher: Audiobook Publishing Services 
  Embark on a passionate journey through Italy, England, Spain, and Canada in Just A Dream: Love in Pursuit, a captivating travel romance memoir by B.A. Bradley. 
  During an unforgettable stay at a picturesque Italian BnB, Bradley’s chance encounter with a stranger sparks an intense and life-changing love story. From sipping fine wine in Tuscany to immersing in vibrant cultures across Europe and beyond, their whirlwind romance is a blend of adventure, self-discovery, and the complexities of love across borders. 
  🌍 A Love Story Without BordersRomantic travel memoir set in Italy, Spain, England, and CanadaPassionate cross-cultural romance with deep emotional explorationThe thrill of unexpected love and the heartache of fleeting connectionsThe universal struggle between love, distance, and life’s uncertainties 
  As the couple’s connection deepens, they must navigate the challenges of long-distance relationships, cultural differences, and personal growth. Can love that begins as a spontaneous adventure truly stand the test of time? 
  ✨ Perfect for fans of:Romantic travel books and whirlwind love storiesMemoirs about love, passion, and self-discoveryHeartfelt contemporary romance with an emotional depth

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  Crassus - The First Tycoon

  Peter Stothard

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  The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory 
   
   
   
  Marcus Licinius Crassus (115–53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic ambition, this trailblazing tycoon might have quietly entered history as Rome's first modern political financier. Instead, Crassus and his son led an army on an unprovoked campaign against Parthia into what are now the borderlands of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, losing a battle at Carrhae which scarred Roman minds for generations. 
   
   
   
  After Crassus was killed, historians told many stories of his demise. Some said that his open mouth, shriveled by desert air, had been filled with molten gold as testament to his lifetime of greed. His story poses both immediate and lasting questions about the intertwining of money, ambition, and power.

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  Hitmen for Hire - Exposing South...

  Mark Shaw

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  Hitmen for Hire takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of paid hitmen, informers, rogue policemen, criminal taxi bosses, gang leaders, and crooked politicians and businessmen. Criminologist Mark Shaw examines a society in which contract killings have become commonplace, looking at who arranges hits, where to find a hitman, and even what it is like to operate as a hitman – or woman.  
  Since 1994, South Africa has seen a worrying increase in the commercialisation of murder – and has been rocked by several high-profile contract killings. Drawing on his research of over a thousand incidents of hired assassinations, from 2000 to 2016, Shaw reveals how these murders are used to exert a mafia-type control over the country’s legal and illegal economic activity. Contracted assassinations, and the organised criminal activity behind them, contain sinister linkages with the upperworld, most visibly in relation to disputes over tenders and access to government resources. State security actors increasingly mediate relations between the under and upper worlds, with serious implications for the long-term success of the post-apartheid democratic project.

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  Cinder Girl - Growing Up on...

  Holly Thompson Rehder

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  Cinder Girl sits in the rarest class of memoir—a towering literary triumph which melds searing and tragic personal history with an incredible story of resilience, hope, and civic success. 
   
  Growing up on welfare, food stamps, and Greyhound buses, Holly Thompson Rehder quit school at fifteen to help take care of her mother and younger sister after a devastating car accident. Getting married and pregnant soon thereafter,  
  like so many other young girls caught in the poverty-cycle, Holly decided that the life she had been born into was not what she intended to give her child. 
   
  But unlike others who wind up mired in a lifetime of poverty, dysfunction, and despair, Holly used her resourcefulness, faith, and sheer stubborn American grit to fight her way out of the gutter. 
   
  Two decades later she was a successful businesswoman. And today, she is a rising political star who serves as an inspiration to young women across the state of Missouri—and indeed, the entire nation—all while never forgetting where she  
  came from. She worked her butt off to help so many others born into seemingly helpless circumstances. 
   
  As a rare lawmaker who speaks candidly from raw personal experience, in Cinder Girl, Rehder rises above standard political prose to provide an unvarnished look inside the worst of American poverty––those living in the margins. Rehder  
  challenges us to recall the plight of those far less fortunate, who struggle without the opportunities most of us take for granted.

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  Hollywood’s Favorite Screwball...

  Editors Charles River

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  “If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.” – Claudette Colbert 
  The 1930s were the height of the classical Hollywood era, known for lavish studio productions by heavyweights like MGM, RKO, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox, which were operating at the height of their powers. Every major studio possessed a long roster of contract players, and films were released at such a rapid pace that it made for an especially competitive environment within the industry. Even while America remained in the throes of the Great Depression, the film industry continued to flourish, and movies easily supplanted the theater as the main attraction for American entertainment. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to claim that the film industry reached its zenith during the decade precisely because it offered an affordable (if very temporary) escape from the anxieties of the economic woes of the era. 
  When the American Film Institute ranked its top 50 screen legends of the 20th century, many of the people named had careers spanning several decades, but one of them managed the feat despite living less than three decades. Ranked as the 22nd greatest actress of the 20th century, Jean Harlow was on the screen for less than 10 years, but in that time the “Blonde Bombshell” became the most popular actress of the 1930s, eclipsing superstars like Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer along the way. In fact, the platinum blonde accomplished that feat as a leading lady for just five years before her premature death of renal failure at the age of 26. 
  Carole Lombard has been memorialized in many fitting ways as an actress, and one of her biggest contributions to Hollywood was the blond archetype that the film industry used successfully for decades in screwball comedies, paving the way for the success of women like Marilyn Monroe. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of that fact is that it was actually based on Carole’s gushing personality. 

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  Struggle Against

  Gary Llama

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  This audiobook takes the listener on the journey of punk rocker Gary Llama's teenage years as singer and guitarist of the punk band 500$Fine.From playing shows at age 14, to writing and recording their own music, to becoming active in the punk and activist scenes in Richmond, Virginia, this book tells a tale of kids trying to make a positive impact on the world, while being challenged at every step. Then, when a tragic death occurs, trying to honor their friend's life.This audiobook takes the listener through a story of pursuing your dreams, fighting for what you believe in, and ultimately, trying to process the life and death of a kid's best friend.

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