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  Edward II - The Unconventional King

  Kathryn Warner

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  He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and invaded his kingdom, and he ended his reign wandering around Wales with a handful of followers, pursued by an army. He was the first king of England forced to abdicate his throne. Popular legend has it that he died screaming impaled on a red-hot poker, but in fact the time and place of his death are shrouded in mystery. His life reads like an Elizabethan tragedy, full of passionate doomed love, bloody revenge, jealousy, hatred, vindictiveness, and obsession. He was Edward II, and this book tells his story. Using almost exclusively fourteenth-century sources and Edward's own letters and speeches wherever possible, Kathryn Warner strips away the myths which have been created about him over the centuries, and provides a far more accurate and vivid picture of him than has previously been seen.

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  Cactus Country - A Boyhood Memoir

  Zoë Bossiere

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  A STRIKING MEMOIR OF GENDERFLUIDITY, CLASS, AND THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST 
   
  Newly arrived in the Sonoran Desert, eleven-year-old Zoë enters a world of giant beetles, thundering javelinas, and gnarled palo verde trees. In Cactus Country RV Park, Zoë has been given a fresh start and a new, shorter haircut. Although Zoë doesn’t have the words to express it, he experiences life as a trans boy—and here, others begin to see him as a boy, too. Zoë spends hot days chasing shade and freight trains with an ever-rotating pack of sunburned desert kids, and nights fending off his own questions about the body underneath his baggy clothes. 
   
  As Zoë enters adolescence, he must reckon with the sexism, racism, substance abuse, and violence endemic to the working-class men he’s grown close to, whose hard masculinity seems as embedded in the desert landscape as the cacti sprouting from parched earth. In response, Zoë adopts an androgynous style and new pronouns, but still cannot escape what it means to live in a gendered body, particularly when a fraught first love destabilizes their sense of self. But beauty flowers in this desert, too. Zoë persists in searching for answers, dreaming of a day they might leave the park behind to embrace whatever awaits beyond. 
   
  Equal parts harsh and tender, Cactus Country is a precisely rendered journey of self-determination that will resonate with anyone who’s ever had to fight to be themself. 
   
  “Cactus Country shimmers with the complexity of becoming. Zoë Bossiere writes their way into a truer story of selfhood, resisting the simpler narratives the world demanded. The result is lush, beautiful, and deeply liberating.”—Alex Marzano Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body

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  A Basic History of the United...

  Clarence B. Carson

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  Carson’s full-scale treatment of American history combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages that lead the listener to a clearer understanding of the people and events, the triumphs and the shortcomings, which have shaped this nation. “For Carson, history is the product of the actions of countless individuals, each under the influence of certain ideas. And Carson explores those ideas, ideologies, and ‘isms.’”—The Freeman 
  This second volume of discusses the move toward independence, the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, the battle for Canada, the struggle for the middle states, the battle for the South, the Constitutional Convention, the making of the Constitution, and the fruits of independence.

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  Don't Compete With AI Command It...

  Jon Pasalega

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  Are you afraid AI will take your IT job? 
   
  You should be. 
   
  But not for the reason you think. 
   
  The truth nobody tells you: AI will not replace IT  
  professionals. It will replace IT professionals  
  who refuse to LEAD it. 
   
  There are now two groups in the global tech market. 
   
  Group One commands AI agents like a conductor leads  
  an orchestra. They earn more. Work less. Sleep better. 
   
  Group Two competes with AI. They lose. Quietly.  
  Painfully. Every single month. 
   
  This audiobook moves you into Group One — fast. 
   
  Inside you will discover: 
   
  - Why Jensen Huang's "100 Agents per Human" plan  
    changes EVERY IT career on Earth 
  - The Token Economy — and how your salary will be  
    rebuilt around it before 2028 
  - The 5 rules of leading AI agents (most people  
    break Rule 3 and pay a brutal price) 
  - The exact 90-day plan to go from beginner to  
    visible commander — with just 30 minutes a day 
  - The 5 human skills AI will NEVER replace — and  
    how to train them starting tomorrow 
  - The new toolkit — LangGraph, RAG, Nemotron,  
    OpenClaw — explained in simple English 
  - Why 84% of IT pros use AI wrong (and how to be  
    in the smart 16%) 
   
  Written for IT professionals worldwide. Clear  
  English. Zero hype. Zero panic. Pure direction. 
   
  If you finish this audiobook and apply just ONE  
  chapter, your career changes. If you ignore it,  
  someone else takes your place. 
   
  Brought to you by ENGLISH FOR WORK ACADEMY. 
   
  This audiobook is narrated by a Virtual Voice. 
   
  Don't compete. Command. Press play now.

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  Strict Bullying Policy - Lesbian...

  Kelly Sanders

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  A college girl is constantly harangued by three of her classmates, who tease her endlessly about her dental braces. When they corner her in the pupils' toilets and begin to physically torment her, she begins to feel the inexplicable stirrings of sexual arousal. As their unrelenting sadism grows more and more extreme, she finds herself barely able to contain her twisted pleasure.  
  This story contains sex scenes and is suitable for adults only. All characters are fictional and are over 18 years old.

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  Suleiman the Magnificent: An...

  Billy Wellman

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  Suleiman the Magnificent is regarded as the greatest ruler of the Ottoman Empire. 
  Suleiman the Magnificent certainly earned his name. He not only had a huge impact on the history of Turkey and the Middle East but also on the European politics of his day, allying himself with France against the Habsburgs of Spain. He is also known for his life-long love affair with Roxelana, a slave girl who became his wife and, some say, co-ruler of the empire. 
  The exploits of this legendary ruler come to life in this audiobook. Enjoy a thrilling story of a man who changed history and brought the Ottoman Empire to new heights. 
  In this audiobook, you will find out:Why Suleiman was a master goldsmith as well as a sultanHow he became a major patron of the arts, employing the famous architect Sinan and changing the skyline of IstanbulWhy he is known to the Turks as “Suleiman the Law Maker (Kanuni)”How close he came to taking Vienna—twice!—and why he failedHow the Ottoman Empire was run almost exclusively by former Christian slavesHow Suleiman’s faithful slave Ibrahim rose to be Grand Vizier—and how he fell from favorHow Suleiman was responsible for the execution of two of his sonsWhy Egypt was so important to the Ottoman EmpireAnd how Suleiman may have been ultimately responsible for the creation of the croissant! 
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