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Running Is a Kind of Dreaming A Memoir by J M Thompson
epub | 3.65 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0062947079 | Author: J. M. Thompson | Year: 2021

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A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life.
Life is movement. Even a leaf can turn toward the sun.
Shortly after moving to America in his twenties, Englishman Jason Thompson woke up one day in a psych ward in San Francisco, where he had been committed. After years of diagnoses, therapists, prescriptions, and hopeless attempts at keeping his seemingly fragile mind from slipping into darkness, Jason was certain his only escape from the torment of life was death. Inside the mental hospital, with long days of emptiness stretched before him, Jason began to run. What began as laps around an old hospital track turned into all-night marathons through the quiet of the mountains. Step by step by step, Jason's body and his mind begin to recover, strengthening with each step and every mile.
Now a gifted clinical psychologist and counselor, Thompson uses his expert knowledge of the inner...

Category:Running & Jogging, Soccer Biographies, Alternative Medicine Healing

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Treasure and Dirt by Chris Hammer
epub | 1.55 MB | English | Isbn:9781760877606 | Author: Chris Hammer | Year: 2021

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In the desolate outback town of Finnigans Gap, police struggle to maintain law and order. Thieves pillage opal mines, religious fanatics recruit vulnerable young people and billionaires do as they please.
Then an opal miner is found crucified and left to rot down his mine. Nothing about the miner's death is straightforward, not even who found the body. Sydney homicide detective Ivan Lucic is sent to investigate, assisted by inexperienced young investigator Nell Buchanan.
But Finnigans Gap has already ended one police career and damaged others, and soon both officers face damning allegations and internal investigations. Have Ivan and Nell been set up and, if so, by whom?
As time runs out, their only chance at redemption is to find the killer. But the more secrets they uncover, the more harrowing the mystery becomes, as events from years ago take on a startling new significance.
For in Finnigans Gap, opals, bodies and secrets don't stay buried for ever.

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New Moons by Nancy Ashmead
epub | 594.07 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B093LWJMRL | Author: Nancy Ashmead | Year: 2021

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The Seed Songs : Book One What if your dreams were psychic instruction, sending you on an epic journey to prevent the collapse of your entire civilization? This is what happens to Mellinar, a reluctant teenager, who is sent back to Earth in order to fulfill an ancient, mysterious prophecy. She returns to her star federation accompanied by a wise, shape-shifting mentor and a young male Earthling whose fate is ultimately linked with hers. They must carefully avoid detection by ruthless members of the ruling class, while visiting diverse star ships as they attempt to tip the balance of power in a new, more promising direction.

Category:Metaphysical Fiction, Metaphysical Science Fiction eBooks, Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction

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Outpost Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy A Memoir by Christopher R Hill
epub | 1.8 MB | English | Isbn:9781451685916 | Author: Christopher R. Hill | Year: 2014

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An "inside the room" memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who-in a career of service to the country-was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war in Iraq, this is the real life of an American diplomat.
Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He takes us from one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic, to Bosnia and Kosovo, to the Dayton conference, where a truce was brokered. Hill draws upon lessons learned as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon early on in his career and details his prodigious experience as a US ambassador. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, where he also served in the depth of the cold war; Ambassador to South Korea and chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton's hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq.
Hill's account is an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents and vice presidents (Clinton, Bush and Cheney, and Obama), of Secretaries of State (Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton), of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and of Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Lawrence Eagleburger. Hill writes bluntly about the bureaucratic warfare in DC and expresses strong criticism of America's aggressive interventions and wars of choice.
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Category:International Diplomacy, International Diplomacy, Biographies of Political Leaders

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The Book of Hope A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall
epub | 86.33 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B08QGN3VX4 | Author: Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams | Year: 2021

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In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?

Looking at the headlines-the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval-it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.
In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist and Douglas Abrams, internationally-bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore-through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue-one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope, Jane focuses on her "Four Reasons for Hope": The Amazing Human Intellect, The Resilience of Nature, The Power of Young People, and The Indomitable Human Spirit.
Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, The Book of Hope touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action? Filled with moving and inspirational stories and photographs from Jane's remarkable career, The Book of Hope is a deeply personal conversation with one of the most beloved figures in the world today.
While discussing the experiences that shaped her discoveries and beliefs, Jane tells the story of how she became a messenger of hope, from living through World War II to her years in Gombe to realizing she had to leave the forest to travel the world in her role as an advocate for environmental justice. And for the first time, she shares her profound revelations about her next, and perhaps final, adventure.
The second book in the Global Icons Series-which launched with the instant classic The Book of Joy with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu-The Book of Hope is a rare and intimate look not only at the nature of hope but also into the heart and mind of a woman who revolutionized how we view the world around us and has spent a lifetime fighting for our future.
There is still hope, and this book will help guide us to it.

Category:Biographies of Environmentalists & Naturalists, Consciousness & Thought, Conservation

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Big Money by Kenneth P Vogel
epub | 640.08 KB | English | Isbn:978-1-6103-9339-3 | Author: Kenneth P. Vogel | Year: 2014

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Mark Hanna-the turn-of-the-century iron-and-coal-magnate-turned-operative who leveraged massive contributions from the robber barons-was famously quoted as saying: "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is." To an extent that would have made Hanna blush, a series of developments capped by the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision effectively crowned a bunch of billionaires and their operatives the new kings of politics.
Big Money is a rollicking tour of a new political world dramatically reordered by ever-larger flows of cash. Ken Vogel has breezed into secret gatherings of big-spending Republicans and Demats alike-from California poolsides to DC hotel bars-to brilliantly expose the way the mega-money men (and rather fewer women) are dominating the new political landscape.
Great wealth seems to attach itself to outsize characters. From the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson to the bubbling nouveau cowboy Foster Friess; from the Texas trial lawyer couple, Amber and Steve Mostyn, to the micromanaging Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg-the multimillionaires and billionaires are swaggering up to the tables for the hottest new game in politics. The prize is American demacy, and the players' checks keep getting bigger.
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Category:Campaigns & Elections, 21st Century History of the U.S., Practical Politics

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The Writing of the Gods The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick
epub | 49.12 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1501198939 | Author: Edward Dolnick | Year: 2021

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The surprising and compelling story of two rival geniuses in an all-out race to decode one of the world's most famous documents-the Rosetta Stone-and their twenty-year-long battle to solve the mystery of ancient Egypt's hieroglyphs.
The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British museum ever year, and yet most people don't really know what it is. Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries.

Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages-in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs. Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt.

Dominating the world for thirty centuries, ancient Egypt was the mightiest empire...

Category:Archaeology, Ancient Egyptian History, Archaeology

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A Glimmer of a Clue by Daryl Wood Gerber
epub | 856.68 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B08KKXNQW8 | Author: Daryl Wood Gerber | Year: 2021

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Courtney Kelly has a shop full of delights, a cat named Pixie, a green thumb-and a magical touch when it comes to garden design. But in Carmel-by-the-Sea, things aren't all sweetness and fairy lights . . .

When Courtney's friend Wanda gets into a ponytail-pulling wrestling match in public with a nasty local art critic, Courtney stops the fight with the help of a garden hose. But Lana Lamar has a talent for escalating things and creating tension, which she succeeds in doing by threatening a lawsuit, getting into yet another scuffle-in the midst of an elegant fundraiser, no less-and lobbing insults around like pickleballs.

Next thing Courtney knows, Lana is on the floor, stabbed with a decorative letter opener from one of Courtney's fairy gardens, and Wanda is standing by asking "What have I done?" But the answer may not be as obvious as it seems, since Wanda is prone to sleepwalking and appears to be in a daze. Could...

Category:Amateur Sleuth Mysteries, Private Investigator Mysteries, Supernatural Mysteries

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Safe Infant Sleep by James J McKenna
epub | 5.02 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1930775768 | Author: James J. McKenna | Year: 2020

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In the world of pediatric care, sleep safety guidelines are controversial and often misguided. Health professionals broadly discourage all forms of cosleeping, which, along with the potentially devastating consequences, makes deciding how and where your baby should sleep both confusing and frightening. Parents who cherish the closeness, security, and warmth of cosleeping are finding themselves conflicted, concerned, and exhausted.

Cosleeping, a term which encompasses sleeping in the same room or on the same bed as your infant, is a common parental instinct driven by physiology and seen throughout human history. Despite mainstream opposition, thousands of parents continue the practice, whether intentionally, accidentally, or out of necessity.

So, why do current medical guidelines insist that cosleeping is unsafe? What is the difference between SIDS and SUID, and are they related to cosleeping? What should parents do to make a safe sleep space...

Category:Breastfeeding, Child Care, Pediatrics

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Death Gone A-Rye by Winnie Archer
epub | 1.36 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1496733541 | Author: Winnie Archer | Year: 2021

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In the Northern California seaside town of Santa Sofia, a killer is trying to get a rise out of baker's apprentice Ivy Culpepper . . .

Vincent Van Dough Focaccia is being touted on Instagram as the best thing since sliced bread. By strategically placing chives, olives, and yellow peppers to look like poppies and sunflowers, bakers create a mouthwatering masterpiece in the style of the great Impressionist painter. At Yeast of Eden, where bread making has always been an art, they're baking their own version for the school district's Spring Fling.

But one person won't be tasting the Mexican bakery's latest specialty. Ambitious school board president Nessa Renchrik has been murdered. Like the rest of this close-knit community, Ivy is shocked. But she's just as surprised to discover her beau-restaurateur Miguel Baptista-had his own fling with Nessa back in the day, and now the police have this half-baked notion he might...

Category:Cozy Culinary Mysteries, Cozy Culinary Mystery, Amateur Sleuth Mysteries

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