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  Live Like Sean - Important Life...

  TJ Nelligan, Theresa Foy DiGeronimo

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  2022 IPPY Book Awards Gold Medalist in Inspirational & Spiritual2022 IBPA Ben Franklin Award, Silver Winner - Parenting & Family2021 2021 BIBA® Non-Fiction Winner2021 Non-Fiction Book Author Association; Gold WinnerWhen my son Sean was born with special needs, his mother and I were told he would never be “normal” and we mourned for the life we had imagined for him. We thought we would have to be his teacher and protector, more so than the typical child. However, we quickly learned that lessons can come from the most unlikely places and that our world would be changed for the better in ways we could have never envisioned. . . all because of Sean.Before he died on Father’s Day 2019, Sean taught me valuable life lessons that only became more pronounced upon his passing. He taught me how to build strong, authentic relationships. He taught me how to live in the moment. He taught me how to feel gratitude. Mostly, he taught me how to live like Sean, and these lessons are his legacy.

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  The Other Madisons - The Lost...

  Bettye Kearse

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  In The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cookand, according to oral tradition, President James Madison—shares her familystory and explores the issues of legacy, race, and the powerful consequences oftelling the whole truth.For thousands of years, West African griots (men) and griottes (women) haverecited the stories of their people. Without this tradition Bettye Kearse would nothave known that she is a descendant of President James Madison and his slave, andhalf-sister, Coreen. In 1990, Kearse became the eighth-generation griotte for herfamily. Its credo—“Always remember, you’re a Madison. You come from Africanslaves and a president”—was intended to be a source of pride, but for her it echoedwith abuses of slavery, including rape and incest.Confronting those abuses, Kearse embarked on a journey of discovery—of herancestors, the nation, and herself. She learned that wherever African slaves walked,recorded history silenced their voices and buried their footsteps: beside a slaveholdingfortress in Ghana, below a federal building in New York City, and under a brickwalkway at James Madison’s Virginia plantation. When Kearse tried to confirm theinformation her ancestors had passed down, she encountered obstacles at every turn.Part personal quest, part testimony, part historical corrective, The OtherMadisons is the saga of an extraordinary American family told by a griotte in searchof the whole story.

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  Poison Pen - The True...

  Lysa Moskowitz-Mateu, David...

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  Two sleazy tabloid reporters expose all of their shocking secrets!The public appetite for intimate details about celebrities continues to grow—             online, on television, and at the check-out counter of every grocery store. To feed the public'             s insatiable desire for juicy gossip, Lysa Moskowitz-Mateu and David LaFontaine traveled the continent in search of headline stories for the Star, National Enquirer, and Globe. Invading the privacy of others became their way of life. By their own account, tabloid reporters are the "vermin media" whose outrageous quests for the inside scoop know no bounds. Whether trying to bluff their way into the wedding of Julia Roberts or stalking Oprah Winfrey, this team pursued dozens of celebrities, including Luke Perry, Nicole Kidman, Pamela Anderson, Marlon Brando, and many more.

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  Alastair Campbell Diaries:...

  Alastair Campbell

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  Caught in the no man's land between being a key figure in Downing Street and the relative anonymity of the world outside politics, Alastair Campbell finds himself being torn in several directions. Having succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown wants Campbell at his side. Campbell resists, flooding his reservoir of guilt as a general election looms and Brown's indecision and fluctuating moods suggest the Labour administration is seriously threatened by the Tory 'posh boy', David Cameron.
  Soon Campbell is earning not only praise but big money from motivational speaking and writing novels which darkly reflect the personal mood swings that continue to concern to both him and his family. Serious journalism across platforms old and new puts him back in the public eye and together with live appearances and a love of sport – his enduring love affair with Burnley Football Club still smoulders – sees him board a celebrity merry-go-round that often leaves him far from his comfort zone.
  With politics constantly tugging his sleeve, he eventually returns to the front line to marshal a party in disarray. The intensity of the months leading up to 6 May 2010 is as dramatic as any screenplay, with Campbell chronicling Brown's struggle to win over a disillusioned nation and then his dignified departure from the main stage. For Campbell, another chapter closes. So what next?

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  George Jellicoe - SAS and SBS...

  Nicholas C. Jellicoe

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  George Jellicoe, son of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, commander of the British Grand Fleet at Jutland, was never compromised by his privileged upbringing. In this insightful biography, his son describes a life of action, drama, public service and controversy.  George’s exploits with the newly formed SAS, as David Stirling’s second-in-command, and later commanding the SBS, make for fascinating reading. Over four years it embraced the North African and Mediterranean campaigns and culminated in the saving of a newly-liberated Athens from the communist guerrillas of ELAS.  The brutality of Stalinist communism led him to join the post-war Foreign Office. In Washington he worked with Kim Philby and Donald Maclean in the cloak and dagger world of espionage. Resigning in 1958 so he could marry the woman he loved, he turned to politics. Although his ministerial career ended in 1973 after unwittingly become entangled with the Lambton scandal, he continued to sit in the House of Lords becoming ‘Father of the House’. He held numerous public appointments including President of the Royal Geographical Society, Chairman of the Medical Research Council, President of the SAS Regimental Association and the UK Crete Veterans Association.  Thanks to the author’s research and access, this is more than a biography of a significant public figure. It provides fascinating detail of Special Forces operations and the characters of the countless figures with whom he mixed.

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  Wernher von Braun

  Erik Bergaust

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  Here is Dr. Wernher von Braun’s incredible story – from his early years in Germany, where he gave birth to modern rocketry, to his arrival in the United States and his launching of the first American satellite, the first man on the moon and other stunning space exploration feats. “Every page of Wernher von Braun’s life is a monument to the drama of adventure. Few people have been fighting so hard and, indeed, very few have been subject to so much criticism, so much jealousy, so much defeat—yet, very few have lived to be honored and to harvest the fruits of so many wonderful victories as has this man.” Author Erik Bergaust has had the advantage of knowing von Braun as a friend, hunting and fishing companion, space business associate—and biographer—for more than twenty-five years. Thus, he has been able to present a dramatic portrait of an important personality and a 20th century hero.

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