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  My Life in the IRA: - The Border...

  Michael Ryan

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  Discover the Inspiring Story of a Revolutionary: Mick Ryan's memoir of growing up in Dublin's East Wall and his journey as former IRA Director of Operations. Explore his commitment to the cause, despite suffering, hardship, and disappointment in My Life in the IRA. Understand why these volunteers persisted against all odds, driven by a deep sense of obligation to the ideals of 1916. Immerse yourself in the journey of a man who saw his involvement as a calling, a way to give meaning to his life. Get a unique perspective on the Irish struggle for independence and be moved by this tale of bravery, conviction and regret.

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  Here Goes Nothing - A Novel

  Eamon McGrath

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  Named a Fall 2020 Best Indie Read by the Globe and Mail
  		 
  From Eamon McGrath, award-winning musician and author of the widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, comes a smart and gritty novel that explores the lives of touring musicians 
  		 
  In this audiobook edition, Eamon McGrath reads the novel set to an original musical score he composed for the book
  		 
  Here Goes Nothing, Eamon McGrath’s brave second offering and follow-up to 2017’s widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, once again explores the world of touring musicians — but this time McGrath expands his scope and perspective from the inner dialogue of a traveling songwriter into the wider range of a multi-member touring band.
  		 
  Told in two interwoven narratives that blur the lines between past and present, Here Goes Nothing explores the complex relationships that are both created and destroyed by the perpetual-motion engine that is the touring van.
  		 
  From confessional tales of saving friends and oneself from drowning in polluted lakes in Michigan to legendary liver-wrecking nights of excess and debauchery in Lisbon, McGrath comments on the corrupt and selfish music industry and the toll it takes on musicians as they blindly chase success. Here Goes Nothing is a gutsy story of how life on the road can bring a band together — or tear them wildly apart.
  		 
  In the ECW-produced adaptation of Here Goes Nothing, McGrath reads his novel overtop of a musical score composed by the author, interweaving his career as both a novelist and a road-hardened touring musician. The result is an audiobook experience unlike any other.

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  Little Known Facts: Rory O'Malley

  Ilana Levine

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  Actor, singer and activist, Rory O’Malley has appeared on stage in The Book of Mormon and most recently, the smash Hamilton. He’s also performed on screen in hits like Dreamgirls, where he performed on the official movie soundtrack covering “Cadillac Car.” Here, O’Malley talks about his start at his hometown Cleveland’s prestigious theater scene, his family dynamics and how he secured the role of King George in Hamilton.

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  Dönitz and the Wolf Packs

  Bernard Edwards

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  On 17 September 1942 Admiral Karl Donitz, C-in-C U-boats, issued the following directive:To all Commanders - 'All attempts to rescue members of ships sunk, therefore also fishing out swimmers and putting them into lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, handing out provisions and water, have to cease. Rescue contradicts the most fundamental demands of war for the annihilation of enemy ships and crews'.This order ended what had hitherto been a war in which the opposing factions treated each other with a certain respect, seaman to seaman, showing mercy where mercy was due. It also marked the point at which the Battle of the Atlantic became a dirty war of attrition, with the U-boats hunting in packs snarling and snapping at the heels of the hard-pressed convoys. Ships began to go down like corn before the reaper, men were dying in their hundreds in the cold grey waters of the great ocean. This was a battle without quarter. A battle the U-boats would have won had it not been for the grit and determination of the convoy escorts and the unflagging resilience of the men who manned the vulnerable merchant ships.This book faithfully records the progress of the Battle of the Atlantic, which began within hours of the declaration of war on 3 September 1939 and continued without let-up until the last torpedo was fired on the night of 7 May 1945, just one hour before Germany surrendered. The story is told from both sides of the periscope.

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  Pass the Pierogies

  Mike Breslin

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  A gut-busting, only slightly exaggerated memoir of growing up in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Region in the 1950s and 1960s.   From flattop haircuts to football fanaticism, block parties to balsa wood models, beer to . . . more beer, this is a rollicking, nostalgic account of life in a Pennsylvania coal town. In a region where downtrodden immigrants from Italy, Ireland, and Eastern Europe poured in during the nineteenth century to find work in the mines—except for the ones who got tired and just stopped in New Jersey—a unique culture was passed down from generation to generation, and this book provides a vivid and humorous picture of what it was like to experience childhood there in the mid-twentieth century. Mike Breslin enthusiastically shares his many stories with readers, because his family is sick of hearing them.   And as for the pierogies of the title, no one actually passes them. When the plate comes out, it’s every man for himself.

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  Machiavelli : Book Of Quotes...

  Quotes Station

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  MACHIAVELLI: BOOK OF QUOTES 
    
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  ABOUT MACHIAVELLI 
  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written about 1513. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science. 
    
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  “Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.” 
    
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  It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.” 
    
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  “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” 
    
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  “A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.” 
    
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  “A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.” 
    
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  “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” 
    
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  “Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.” 
   

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