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  Messenger of Death - Captain...

  David Buttery

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  A biography of the British Army officer and his role in the Crimean War at the Charge at Balaklava. 
   
  Captain Louis Nolan delivered the order that produced one of the most famous blunders in all military history—the Charge of the Light Brigade. Nolan’s conduct and the Charge itself have been the subject of intense, sometimes bitter debate ever since. Yet there has been no recent biography of Nolan. He remains an ambiguous, controversial figure to this day. In this fresh and perceptive study, David Buttery attempts to set the record straight. He reassesses the man and looks at his military career, for there was much more to Louis Nolan than his fatal role in the Charge. This sympathetic account of his life throws new light on the Victorian army and its officer class, and on the conduct of the war in the Crimea. It also offers the reader an inside view of the most notorious episode of that war, the Charge at Balaklava on 25 October 1854.

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  Listen Mama

  M.S.P. Williams

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  Finalist for Best Audiobook Memoir  --2022 Audie Awards 
  Finalist for Best Memoir --2022 BookLife/Publishers Weekly Selfies US Book Award 
  Finalist for Best Memoir --2022 Eric Hoffer Award 
  Finalist for Best African American Literary Nonfiction --2022 Indie Book Awards 
  "As dramatic as it is heartbreaking." --Kirkus Reviews  
  "Warmly likable man doing his utmost to struggle through more tragedy and bad luck than any human being should..." -- BookLife Review 
  Through a series of letters at times heart-breaking, poetic, and unexpectedly humorous, come explore this true teen and young adult journey of a lost soul searching for the love of his mentally ill mother. While facing seemingly insurmountable odds, Manny ultimately becomes her caretaker and guardian while also parenting his four younger siblings in 1990’s Houston, Texas. 
  Witness his transformation in this coming-of-age story of a forgotten and disfigured black child, born into spirit-crushing poverty, and thrust into adult life all too soon. Manny’s teen years are spent battling the silent and treacherous enemy of mental illness in his mother's erratic and terrifying behavior. Years of bullying and abuse finally take their toll, and Manny soon finds himself at war with his own demons of depression, anxiety, and suicide attempts as he struggles to find his place in the world, and the true meaning of unconditional love. 
  Experience this inspirational story of loss, faith, love, and redemption that is guaranteed to bring forth both tears and laughter, heartache and happiness, as it captures your imagination, ignites your soul, and soon has you racing from page to page, breathlessly waiting to discover what happens next…

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  This Wide Terraqueous World

  Laird Hunt

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  In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird Hunt uses fiction as an inspiration, a tool, even an obsession, employing its methods to get to the heart of experience. The “sizzling” work of Jane Bowles colors his wanderings through Palermo while a London museum trip provokes a consideration of taxidermy’s storytelling potential and fairytales blend with echoes of W. G. Sebald, Willa Cather, and László Krasznahorkai. From intrigue at the United Nations to a broken-down car in Nebraska, from the history of denim to the dangerous games of childhood, This Wide Terraqueous World leads listeners down the winding paths of memory as Hunt examines his subjects in razor-sharp prose both eerily spare and richly evocative.

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  Breaking Out: The unbelievable...

  Janice Nix

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  ’We’re going to change all this. We’re going to make you a new life.’ 
  From petty shoplifter to gangland empress. 
  From frightened runaway to proud mother. 
  From drug dealer to probation worker. 
  Janice Nix lived a life of crime. Groomed to work as a shoplifter in London’s West End, she entered a glamorous underworld of beautiful possessions – and drugs. As she rose to the top of her criminal empire, Janice achieved the money and status her family had never had. But one day, it had to come tumbling down. 
  Several prison stretches later, Janice was reformed – and inspired to join the probation service. Using everything she learned in her years on the streets, she’s devoted her life to ensure girls like her don’t make the same mistakes. 
  This is her story. 
  In Breaking Out, Janice Nix's autobiography, she takes us on a journey through her life, from her days as a criminal in an organised underworld to her transformation into a law enforcement officer. Her story is not just a biography, but a motivational and inspirational self-help guide that shows us that it's never too late to change. 
  For fans of Ruth Kelly (Amber's Donkey), Dr Amanda Brown (THE PRISON DOCTOR), Kim Chown (Who Will Believe You?), Chris Atkins (A Bit of a Stretch), and Maggie Hartley (Not To Blame).

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  Unearthing Churchill's Secret...

  Martin Mace

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  The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many of its agents was not revealed to the general public other than the bare details carved with pride upon the headstones and memorials of those courageous individuals.Then in 2003, the first batch of SOE personal files was released by the National Archive. Over the course of the following years more and more files were made available. Now, at last, it is possible to tell the stories of all those agents that died in action.These are stories of bravery and betrayal, incompetence and misfortune, of brutal torture and ultimately death. Some died when their parachutes failed to open, others swallowed their cyanide capsules rather than fall into the hands of the Gestapo, many died in combat with the enemy, most though were executed, by hanging, by shooting and even by lethal injection.The bodies of many of the lost agents were never found, destroyed in the crematoria of such places as Buckenwald, Mauthausen and Natzweiler, others were buried where they fell. All of them should be remembered as having undertaken missions behind enemy lines in the knowledge that they might never return.

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  To Mom and Dad with love - My...

  HARRY KUPERBERG

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  My Mom escaped from the Umschlagplatz or meeting place in Opatow Poland.She quickly found herself with Identification papers and a new identity in Warsaw.She became an important member of the Partisans conducting Espionage and Military attacks with my Father.He was in the Warsaw Ghetto with rebels fighting the Nazi as he kept a hidden Bakery and took good care of his beloved parents.With the Sewers as his transportation system he and my Mom were instrumental in saving many Jewish children and often their families as well.They almost escaped Warsaw by flying out of a German military airport with Diplomatic passports issued by the Portuguese Embassy.But after taking off from an Airport teeming with the German military the Plane had engine trouble and needed to return to the Airport.

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