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  From Borneo to Lockerbie -...

  Geoffrey Leeming

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  A pilot discusses his missions around the world as he chronicles his career with Britain’s Royal Air Force in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. 
   
  In 1961 Geoffrey Leeming achieved his boyhood ambition to become a RAF pilot. After a period as co-pilot on the tanker variant of the Valiant bomber, a sudden change of circumstances resulted in most of his subsequent service flying being as a helicopter pilot. The helicopter most in use at this time was the Whirlwind, a good aircraft but of limited performance and lacking the technical aids enjoyed by later types of helicopters. 
   
  He next flew in the little-known Borneo Confrontation of the 1960s. Living in primitive jungle bases alongside loyal and friendly natives, the Whirlwind crews supported the land forces operating along the Indonesian border with long and hazardous flights over dense, frequently uncharted, jungle. 
   
  Most of the Author’s remaining helicopter service was in the Search and Rescue role, firstly from RAF Lossiemouth, then from RAF Valley, flying in the mountains and over the surrounding seas of the Scottish Highlands and Snowdonia. Many lives were saved by Geoffrey and his crewmen in weather conditions frequently exceeding the safety limits in which they were supposed to operate. 
   
  His final postings were as an instructor and as commander of the Search and Rescue Training Unit at Valley. This period culminated in his traumatic involvement in the immediate aftermath of the explosion of the Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie. 
   
  From Borneo to Lockerbie is an exciting flying memoir enhanced by the Author's natural modesty.

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  Dombey and Son

  Charles Dickens

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  Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens's story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author's gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens's "genius . . . is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel that could be, one big enough for his vast sentimental yearnings and for every impulse and fear and hesitation in him that countervailed those yearnings too. Never parsimonious and frequently contradictory, he always gives us everything he can, everything he's planned to give, and then more

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  The World Encyclopedia of Serial...

  Susan Hall

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  The 4th volume of this comprehensive work features hundreds of serial killers from Sacramento to Soviet Russia—plus numerous unsolved cases.  The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most complete reference guide on the subject, featuring more than 1,600 entries about the lives and crimes of serial killers from around the world. Defined by the FBI as a person who murders three or more people with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, the serial killer has presented unique and terrifying challenges to  have walked among us since the dawn of time—a fact this extensive record makes chillingly clear.   The series concludes with Volume Four, T-Z. Entries include the Terminator Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko; Trailside Killer David Joseph Carpenter; Vampire of Sacramento Richard Trenton Chase; and the Voroshilovgrad Maniac Zaven Almazyan; plus the unsolved cases of the Adelaide Child Murders; the Axeman of New Orleans; the Chillicothe Killer; the Dead Women of Juarez; the Korea Frog Boy Murders; and the Volga Maniac.

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  The Uncrowned Queen Reclaims Her...

  Dr. Rev. Ahmondra McClendon

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  The Uncrowned Queen Reclaims Her Throne:  When A Black Woman Breaks the Silence 
   
  In her new book Dr. Ahmondra McClendon reveals how The Legacy of Silence, a generational pattern of behavior, has tarnished Black Women's identities, stolen their power, dimmed their voices, and impacted their well-being. 
   
  Black women have been taught to be silent for generations. This silence has been passed down from mother to daughter, profoundly impacting Black Women's worldview. 
   
  Dr. Ahmondra's book delivers a powerful and moving account of her journey to break The Legacy of silence and reclaim her power. It is a must-read for Black Women of all ages seeking to better understand themselves and their ancestral heritage. It is also a valuable resource for those who work with Black Women or are interested in learning more about their challenges. 
   
  Following her journey, readers witness the strength, courage, and resiliency Black Women exhibit while keeping painful secrets of childhood trauma, domestic violence, drug addiction, and paralyzing grief hidden deep within. 
   
  The Uncrowned Queen is a must-read for Black Women of all ages seeking to better understand themselves and their ancestral heritage. It is also a valuable resource for those who work with Black Women or are interested in learning more about their challenges. 
   
  Dr. Ahmondra's passion for empowering Black Women led her to create The Original Queens Sacred Community. It is a safe space for "US TOO" to gather in Sistahood, speak truths, recognize triumphs, and begin generational healing within the new Black Women's liberation movement of "US TOO." 
  Contact Dr. Ahmondra directly at DrAhmondra.Com or ucqueen.com

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  Undiluted Hocus-Pocus - The...

  Martin Gardner

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  The autobiography of the beloved writer who inspired a generation to study math and scienceMartin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a candid self-portrait by the man evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould called our "single brightest beacon" for the defense of rationality and good science against mysticism and anti-intellectualism.Gardner takes readers from his childhood in Oklahoma to his varied and wide-ranging professional pursuits. He shares colorful anecdotes about the many fascinating people he met and mentored, and voices strong opinions on the subjects that matter to him most, from his love of mathematics to his uncompromising stance against pseudoscience. For Gardner, our mathematically structured universe is undiluted hocus-pocus—a marvelous enigma, in other words.Undiluted Hocus-Pocus offers a rare, intimate look at Gardner’s life and work, and the experiences that shaped both.

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  Booker T Washington: Builder of...

  Emmett J. Scott, Lymann Beecher...

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  Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Emmett J. Scott, Lyman Beecher Stowe IT IS not hyperbole to say that Booker T. Washington was a great American. For twenty years before his death, he had been the most useful, as well as the most distinguished, member of his race in the world, and one of the most useful, as well as one of the most distinguished, of American citizens of any race. Eminent though his services were to the people of his own color, the white men of our Republic were almost as much indebted to him, both directly and indirectly. They were indebted to him directly, because of the work he did on behalf of industrial education for the Negro, thus giving impetus to the work for the industrial education of the White Man, which is, at least, as necessary; and, moreover, every successful effort to turn the thoughts of the natural leaders of the Negro race into the fields of business endeavor, of agricultural effort, of every species of success in private life, is not only to their advantage but to the advantage of the White Man, as tending to remove the friction and trouble that inevitably come throughout the South at this time in any Negro district where the Negroes turn for their advancement primarily to political life. The indirect indebtedness of the White Race to Booker T. Washington is due to the simple fact that here in America we are all, in the end, going up or down together; and therefore, in the long run, the man who makes a substantial contribution toward uplifting any part of the community has helped to uplift all of the community. Wherever in our land the Negro remains uneducated, and liable to criminal suggestion, it is absolutely certain that the whites will themselves tend to tread the paths of barbarism; and wherever we find people of color as a whole engaged in successful work to better themselves, and respecting both themselves and others, there we shall also find the tone of the white community high.

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