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  Thrilling Cities - Fourteen...

  Ian Fleming

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  A CAPTIVATING JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CREATOR OF JAMES BOND 
  Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world’s most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the author’s Bond canon. 
  From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favor of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world from a twentieth century Western perspective. 
  Just like his most famous fictional creation, Ian Fleming was a well-traveled man of the world who knew where to go to find excitement, adventure…and danger. In Thrilling Cities, he takes us along on a journey of international intrigue worthy of James Bond.

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  Weird Foods of Portugal -...

  WendyLeeHermance

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  “With her typically American intrepidness, her thirst for a good story and her power of observation, Hermance closes-in on the Portuguese she encounters along the way, bringing to us a psychological picture of the Portuguese individual and society that you won´t find on expat guides. Lastly, her unusual grasp for ´Portuguese quaintness´ also makes this book worth buying.” David Peres Rebelo

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  Beyond Love - The Epic Story of...

  Dominique Lapierre

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  From its first appearance in the late 1970s to the remarkable treatment methods that are now keeping millions alive, AIDS has been a headlining topic for decades. Master storyteller Dominique Lapierre— renowned for his best sellers Is Paris Burning? and The City of Joy— has created his most extraordinary epic of human endeavor. In this dramatic, inspiring, and tender work, the author recounts the worldwide efforts to identify, control, and eventually eliminate the AIDS virus. Told through the eyes of doctors, scientists, nurses, and victims, these heroes and dreamers work desperately to conquer an insidious adversary and stop a dreadful epidemic.

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  Summary of Adam Schiff's...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Adam Schiff's Midnight in Washington 
    
  In Midnight in Washington (2021), Adam Schiff reflects on the actions of Donald Trump that compromised the very nature of democracy in America. Narrating key moments of his life up to the point he became a congressman, Schiff gives the readers insights on his ideologies and upbringing. He argues that Trump committed unlawful acts against the nation, chronicles the first and second impeachment, and details Trump’s reaction to Joe Biden winning the 2020 presidential election. 
  Midnight in Washington is a testimony of what happened on the human level during key political events. Schiff aims to show how the Republican Party was stripped of its principles, how he lost friendships with colleagues he had worked with for years, and how certain people risked everything to stand up against the autocratic rule of Donald Trump. 
   

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  Eyes on the Horizon - My Journey...

  Balarama Holness

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  A former football champion’s engrossing personal story of spirituality and rebellion, and an inspiring call to action against systemic racism. 
  The son of a Jamaican father and a Quebecois mother, Balarama Holness spent his earliest, most formative years on an ashram in West Virginia, learning the principles of equity and austerity, which would guide him through life. It wasn’t until he returned to Montreal at age ten with his mother and twin brother that he encountered virulent racism for the first time. Faced with a system that seemed stacked against him, Holness initially fell between the cracks. 
  Eyes on the Horizon is Holness’s story of lifting himself up through the power of self-determination, spirituality and no small amount of rebellion to confront the systemic racism of his city and his country. He accomplished this first through football, going all the way to a Grey Cup championship, and later through activism and politics. 
  Holness’s personal journey is connected to the social history of Canada, Quebec and the United States. Committed to reshaping society as we know it, he uses lessons from his own life to teach others about racism past and present, and to help people better understand how human beings should live and how to build a truly peaceful and just society for our children.

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  Miracles on the 42nd Floor -...

  Marlene Ostrom

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  When God calls us to some small act of faith—maybe encouraging a stranger or opening up our home—we may never know the consequences if we disobey. But when we do obey, God can do amazing things. In this book, Marlene picks up where she left off in Making Faith Great Again. When her husband passed away after sixty years of fruitful ministry, God promised her that the best was yet to come. By believing His promise and obeying His promptings, she soon found herself mentoring up to thirty people each week in her condo on the 42nd floor of the Bellevue Towers. This book is filled with just some of their stories, including: •,A life-long Christian who allowed early success to distract him from what really mattered, costing him his marriage. •,A lapsed Mormon who discovered that following God is about a relationship, not rules.•,An immigrant who tried to fill his need for God with drugs and then with money, but found freedom from karma through grace.•,A self-proclaimed “lone wolf” who found community in the middle of the COVID-19 shutdown. These stories will inspire your faith and encourage you to obey God in your everyday life…because you never know what miracles He may have just around the corner!

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