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  NYOTA - The remarkable tale of...

  Fab Kakosso

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  In "NYOTA," Fab Kakosso recounts an extraordinary journey from the turmoil of the Liberian Civil War to the promise of a new life. Guided by the unyielding spirit of his mother, Jeannette, Fab navigates the treacherous path of war, displacement, and survival. This memoir is not just a recounting of events; it is a profound reflection on resilience, hope, and the power of familial bonds. 
  Set against the backdrop of a nation in chaos, "NYOTA" weaves personal anecdotes with historical insights, offering readers a vivid portrayal of life during one of West Africa's most devastating conflicts. The narrative captures Fab's childhood innocence, abruptly shattered by the onset of war, and his family's desperate attempts to find safety and solace amidst the anarchy. 
  Each chapter of "NYOTA" unfolds as a standalone episode, chronicling key moments of Fab's journey. From the harrowing separation from his siblings to the heart-stopping moments of danger and the eventual quest for peace, this memoir paints a picture of enduring human spirit and the sacrifices made for the sake of family and survival. 
  Through meticulous storytelling, Fab Kakosso honors his mother, the beacon of his survival, and reflects on the cultural legacy and ancestral wisdom that shaped his identity. "NYOTA" is a testament to the unbreakable bond between mother and child and a tribute to the strength and courage found in the face of overwhelming adversity.

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  Dead Body Calls - One Cop's...

  Loren W. Christensen, Lt. Col....

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  Bestselling author Loren W. Christensen served as a Military Policeman in Saigon, Vietnam, "the most dangerous city in the world," as it was called at the time. Shortly after returning home, he joined the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon, serving for twenty-five years. As a street cop, there were times he was dispatched to dead body calls so frequently that other officers teasingly called him the "Death Car." 
   
   
   
  It didn't help that the morgue was in his beat, which meant he and his partner were often called to identify freshly brought in corpses without identification. 
   
   
   
  Dead Body Calls tells of some of his experiences with the victims of suicide, homicide, fatal accidents, and natural deaths that crossed his path. Loren shows the effects of the deaths on family and friends at the scenes and the eventual toll on him and other officers.

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  Drive Like An Action Hero - One...

  Craig Hinkle

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  Drive Like an Action Hero tells the story from the moment Craig passed his permit test to the life-changing tickets and ultimate accident that forever altered his attitude toward driving.  After years of Craig's risky adventures and over-the-top escapades, he was forced to re-examine himself and re-evaluate the way he treated his car, and more importantly, the people in his car and the law.

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  Margaret of Wessex - Mother...

  Laurel A. Rockefeller

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  The 11th century was a dangerous time to be of the line unbroken of King Æthelred II Unread and his first queen, Æfgifu of York. Born in Hungary after King Canute III's failed attempt to murder her father, Edward the Exile, Margaret found her life turned upside down by King Edward the Confessor's discovery of her father's survival -- and the resulting recall of her family to England. 
  Now a political hostage only kept alive for as long as it served powerful men's interests, Margaret and her family found King Máel Coluim mac Donnchadh Ceann Mhor (Malcolm III Canmore)'s invitation to his court in Dunfermline in Alba the long-awaited answer to her prayers. 
  Scotland would never be the same again.

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  The Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter

  Paul Blake Smith

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  Under the cover of night, on February 19, 1973, another U.S. president witnessed extraterrestrials. 
   
   
   
  President Richard Nixon made a secret trip to a top security U.S. Air Force base, as his former boss, President Dwight Eisenhower, did in 1954. Nixon was said to have taken his golfing buddy, comedian Jackie Gleason. According to Gleason's then wife, Beverly McKittrick Gleason, Jackie was deeply shaken later that night when he returned home and confessed to their clandestine trip. 
   
   
   
  As established in Smith's previous work, President Eisenhower's Close Encounters, this meeting was reminiscent of and perhaps even predicated by similar visits made by the president's predecessors, as well as others in the American government and entertainment industry. This in-depth book will attempt to separate fact from fiction. These events were carried off without the public learning the hushed facts and data connecting the two different presidential administrations . . . 
   
   
   
  until now.

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  Fierce Attachments - A Memoir

  Vivian Gornick

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  In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. 
   
   
   
  Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. These women with their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick's struggle to find herself in love and in work. 
   
   
   
  As Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York, arguing and remembering the past, each wins the listener's admiration: the caustic and clear-thinking daughter, for her courage and tenacity in really talking to her mother about the most basic issues of their lives, and the still powerful and intuitively-wise old woman, who again and again proves herself her daughter's mother.

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