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  Finding Myself Facing Cancer -...

  Sarah Fenlon Falk

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  Sarah would say there is no such thing as meaningless suffering, just that which we don't understand. And she would go on to explain her belief that even in the midst of our confusion we can choose to make meaning of those difficult experiences. 
  In Finding Myself ... Facing Cancer, Sarah Fenlon Falk shares from her journals both as a teenager with bone cancer and as a young mother in her forties dealing with first breast cancer, then skin cancer. 
  Sarah speaks candidly of the physical, emotional and spiritual struggles of the cancer experience with an attitude of hope and the deeply rooted belief that there is purpose even in the midst of pain.

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  Saturday at MI9 - The Classic...

  Airey Neave

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  The author of Flames of Calais details life in the top-secret department of Britain’s War Office during World War II in this military memoir. Airey Neave, who in the last two years of the war was the chief organizer at M.I.9, gives his inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied North-West Europe, which returned over 4,000 Allied servicemen to Britain during the Second World War. He describes how the escape lines began in the first dark days of German occupation and how, until the end of the war, thousands of ordinary men and women made their own contribution to the Allied victory by hiding and feeding men and guiding them to safety. Neave was the first British POW to make a “home run” from Colditz Castle. On his return, he joined M.I.9 adopting the code name “Saturday.” He also served with the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal. Tragically Airey Neave’s life was cut short by the IRA who assassinated him in 1979 when he was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political allies.Praise for Saturday at M.I.9“There isn’t a page in the book which isn’t exciting in incident, wise in judgment, and absorbing through its human involvement.” —The Times Literary Supplement (UK)

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  Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths...

  Martin Baggoley

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  Martin Baggoley was born in Eccles . He spent several years working in London and Salford as a civil servant, before qualifying as a probation officer in 1976. Since then, he has worked in the Greater Manchester area, and during this period gained a masters degree in criminology. He has written for a number of UK and American professional journals on criminal justice issues. His main interest is the history of crime and punishment and for this book, he has combind his professional experience and academic expertise with his interest in local history.

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  With Schwarzkopf - Life Lessons...

  Gus Lee

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  With Schwarzkopf is Gus Lee's remembrance of his mentor and friend H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and his firsthand account of how Schwarzkopf shaped his life. In 1966, Lee, a junior-year cadet at West Point, was bright, athletic, and popular. He was also on the verge of getting kicked out. Nearing the bottom of his class due to his penchant for playing poker and reading recreationally instead of studying engineering, he was assigned a new professor: then-Major Norman Schwarzkopf. Schwarzkopf's deeply principled nature and fierce personality took hold of the wayward cadet, and the two began meeting regularly and discussing what it meant to be a scholar, a soldier, and a man. 
   
  Lee's vibrant, witty narrative brings his more than forty-year relationship with Schwarzkopf to life. Listeners get an inside look at West Point culture; they see Schwarzkopf's bristling anger with his rebellious pupil as well as his tenacity, intellect, and moments of surprising emotional warmth; and they watch as Lee starts to absorb his teachings. As he left West Point and took on more professional and personal roles, Lee approached every crisis or difficult decision by channeling his mentor. Over the years, Schwarzkopf's instilled values, wise counsel, and warm conversations shaped Lee and brought the two together in an unlikely friendship. In With Schwarzkopf, Lee passes along the lessons he learned so future generations can hear Schwarzkopf's important teachings.

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  Building for War - The Epic Saga...

  Bonita Gilbert

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  The story of the Americans who came under attack five hours after Pearl Harbor was hit: “Intriguing, informative, gripping, and at times very moving” (Naval Historical Foundation).   This intimately researched work tells the story of the thousand-plus Depression-era civilian contractors who came to Wake Island, a remote Pacific atoll, in 1941 to build an air station for the US Navy—charting the contractors’ hard-won progress as they scramble to build the naval base, as well as runways for US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortresses, while war clouds gather over the Pacific.   Five hours after their attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese struck Wake Island, which was now isolated from assistance. The undermanned Marine Corps garrison, augmented by civilian-contractor volunteers, fought back against repeated enemy attacks, at one point thwarting a massive landing assault. The atoll was under siege for two weeks as its defenders continued to hope for the US Navy to come to their rescue. Finally succumbing to an overwhelming amphibious attack, the surviving Americans, military and civilian, were taken prisoner. While most were shipped off to Japanese POW camps for slave labor, a number of the civilians were retained as workers on occupied Wake. Later in the war, the last ninety-eight Americans were brutally massacred by their captors. The civilian contractors who had risked distance and danger for well-paying jobs ended up paying a steep price: their freedom and, for many, their lives.   Written by the daughter and granddaughter of civilians who served on Wake Island, Building for War sheds new light on why the United States was taken by surprise in December 1941, and shines a spotlight on the little-known, virtually forgotten story of a group of civilian workers and their families whose lives were forever changed by the events on this tiny atoll.

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  Summary of Kevin Hart & Neil...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kevin Hart & Neil Strauss's I Can't Make This Up 
    
  I Can’t Make This Up (2017) is superstar comedian Kevin Hart’s funny, heartbreaking, and inspiring memoir about survival, achievement, and the value of believing in yourself. Written with bestselling author Neil Strauss, the memoir starts with Hart’s childhood and chronicles all the obstacles he has faced. His father was a heroin addict who was in and out of jail, his sibling was a minor thief and a crack dealer, and his mother was harsh, slapping him with belts, frying pans, and even his own toys. 
  Hart overcame family problems, struggles in school, and a rocky start as a comedian in his rise to international fame, wealth, and success. He did it not only through hard work, determination, and talent, but also via his unique perspective on the world. Hart sees life like a book - a collection of chapters that we each get to compose for ourselves. 
   

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